" Remember what we talked about ?", the boy asks Katrina, who was walking beside him.
Katrina nods her head vigorously and said,
" We'll only stay there for a little while and I'm should be careful around your father."
" Good.", the boy said hearing Katrina's answer.
Watching the duo, Lather asks Jacob who was standing next to him,
" So... let me get this straight, your taking you're girlfriend to meet you're abusive father..... are you stupid ?"
Jacob doesn't take his eyes off the duo and answers back,
" I made sure that my father hadn't taken a sip of alcohol that day... I didn't consider the fact even without drinking he was an asshole..,."
Lather lets out a little sigh, he was getting impatient again.
Lather waves his hand and the scene around them changes,
Katrina was being groped by an middle-aged man, the man hugged her tightly while she tried to break free from his grasp. But thankfully the situation doesn't escalate further as the boy rushes into the room they were in and pushes his father away.
Katrina was shaking and tears were flowing down from her eyes, the boy embraced her and patted her head in an attempt to calm her down. The boy's eyes were fixed on his father, who was displaying a toothy grin.
It was then that Lather saw it.... there was no mistaking it, countless people had looked at him like that during his prime..
The boy was staring at his father with killing intent.
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The boy is walking around a supermarket, putting all kinds of items inside his cart. After making sure that he had everything he wanted, the boy starts heading to the cashier.
An middled aged women stood at the register, she took all the things in the boy's cart one by one and scanned the items.
" You've got a lot of rats huh ?", the women asks while scanning the third bottle of rat poison.
The boy smiles at her words and said,
" Not a lot... just one big rat that won't die no matter what I do."
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" Here's your beer, dad.", the boy said quietly to his already drunk father.
" Good boy.", the old man takes the beer in his hands and starts chugging it.
But the man's face contorts soon,
" What kind of beer is this ?... you worthl-", the man suddenly falls to the ground, coughing out blood, he starts squirming around and finally stops. Bubbles of saliva and blood form at the man's mouth. The last thing the man saw before departing this world was the cold eyes of his only son.
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The boy seemed to be in a trance.
He just stared at his father's lifeless body blankly.
After a minute or so the boy snaps back to reality and starts moving his father's body to their backyard. The boy throws his father inside the deep pit he had dug out a while ago and then covers up the pit in about ten minutes.
After making sure that the pit was covered up nicely, the boy goes back inside and takes the poisoned beer bottle and goes away to somewhere and returns after sometime. After coming back, he takes another beer from the fridge and gulps it down quickly.
" What are you doin-", Lather stops speaking once he saw what happened next.
The boy had smashed the beer bottle over his face, as a result blood could be seen flowing down from his face. Some glass fragments had gotten stuck on his face but the boy made no attempt to take them out.
The boy starts crying and falls to the ground, he then starts to crawl. The boy crawls and crawls untill he reaches his neighbors house.
Seeing the confusion on Lather's face, Jacob let out a sigh and said,
" My father wasn't exactly know for his 'sense of responsibility'.... I made use of that to concoct a story. He hit me and ran away.... simple but pretty effective."
Lather was amazed, the plan wasn't all that great but it still worked but that wasn't why he was amazed.
' To think a mere child would be able to kill a person, his father no less with no hesitation.', Lather thought with a smile on his face.
This was what Lather exactly wanted.
Lather continues to watch with excitement coursing through his nerves.
Once the neighbors find the boy, they call the police and everything goes as Jacob said it would.
A search for the boy's father was conducted by the police but it didn't have any significant results. If only the police knew that the man they were looking for was buried in his own backyard !
Without any other guardian to take care of the boy, the officials decided to put him in the foster care, which might have been the boy's goal all along.
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The boy was in the hospital right now.
He sat in the hospital bed, his face covered in bandages. Katrina along with her parents visit the boy.
Katrina's parents leave the room after greeting the boy to let the boy and Katrina talk freely.
" I'm so sorry...", Katrina said while hugging the boy tightly.
" You have nothing to be sorry for and.... owww.", the boy said with a gentle smile on his face as if he hadn't killed his father just a few days ago.
The boy and Katrina converse for awhile, but suddenly out of nowhere the boy said,
" My father didn't run away, Katrina..... I killed him."
An heavy silence descends upon the room, the boy doesn't look at Katrina and keeps his gaze fixed on the floor.
The boy continues to narrate the events that had taken place a few days ago. After completing his explanation the boy adds in,
" I understand if you hate me now, but I couldn't spend another second in that house afraid.... If you want, you can turn me in to the police... I understand. I'm saying all this because.... I don't want to lie to you anymore."
Now the boy finally looks up at Katrina to find that she was crying silently. She hugs him yet again and whispers into his ears,
" I'm sorry you had to go through that.... I should have noticed it sooner.... I won't let you go through anything like that again.... I'll protect you.... we'll be together... [always]."
" I'm not h-", the boy starts to speak but stops as she presses her fingers on his lips to stop him from speaking. The boy stays silent for a minute. Tears falls down his face. They stay like that untill a woman walks inside the room.
The boy's eyes widen as his eyes fall on the women who had just entered the room, it was someone that he was extremely familiar with....
It was the boy's mother.
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