AT THE HOUSE:
The mom screams from below and asks his son, Steve to
lower the volume and that it's chaos down below. Steve quickly
responds to his mom and tells her he'll lower the volume in a
minute. He proceeds to lower the volume, but it still is loud. So
his mother walks in to the room without knocking. She gasped
as she saw his 13 year old son watching the infamous torture
sequence from American psycho and laughing and enjoying it.
She was scared that her son became insane. She pulls the tv plug
and slaps him hard and questions him. Enraged, she curses him
and asks what the fuck was he watching and who gave it to him.
She wondered why would someone 13 years old watch such a
horrifying scene on high volume and laugh at it.
She was terrified and upset. She says that he was in no way
eligible to watch that explicit content. Steve quickly apologizes
and says that its not as bad as it appears and that he'll make it
up to her. He pleads to her that he'll do anything to avoid
confrontation with his dad. His mom tells him to save his sorry
for his father for he is to take care of him.
AT THE DINNER TABLE:
The family of three is sat down on the dining table and
there's a pristine silence in the room. Nobody talks until the
father makes a first move. The father is a hardworking
conservative war veteran.
After a moment of silence, he tells his son that he heard
something happened that day and asked if he would care to
explain. The son quickly responds with a made up answer that it
was nothing and it's just mom overreacting for something small.
He also says that everybody in school watches it and its no big
deal. With a smirk on his face, he says mom's just a drama
queen. If there's one thing the father believes, it's respect to his
mother. This triggered him and he threw the plate on the walls.
The mother starts cleaning the mess in disbelief of what just
happened.
The father holds Steve by his shirt and says "Boy, you
better shut your mouth. Don't you ever talk about your mother
like that. That'll be the end of you. I don't give a flying fuck what
you watch; but if your mother says something, you better listen
and listen well. Or you'll have to face the consequences" He then
removes his belt implying what would happen the next time if
something like this happens again. Steve breaks down and runs
to his room in fear. Then the mother tells the father that he
could've talked some sense into him instead of belittling him as
always and throwing things. She asks him to control his anger.
The father admits and says "I may have gone too far but
don't you ever question my methods. I know how I was raised by
my father and that's the same way I'll raise my son as well. If you
have any problems with it, you can go fuck yourself."
Mother cries in disbelief of how awful things have gone
wrong for a small problem. Dad goes outside and sips on his
beer. Son is crying his heart out in his room. Mother is weeping
and cleaning the mess the father just created. The house is filled
with silent tears and a presence of a violent monster residing
among them.
(THE NEXT DAY)
AT THE SCHOOL:
Steve daps his friend Joshua and they get ready for the
class. Steve returns back his CD to Joshuaand tells him the he
wishes he never got the CD from him in the first place. He then
says the day before was a havoc and that his parents made a big
scene out of him watching the movie. His friend as usual just
funnily responds with "Well its on you man. You asked the cd
and watched it on high volume. Who in their right minds would
watch American psycho on TV in loud volume."
Quickly one of the students started spreading news
about how got his ass kicked by his dad the previous night and
soon everybody started mocking and bullying and laughing at
him and his family.
Enraged Steve gets up and tells everybody to shut the
fuck up and that don't ever talk about his family ever again.
Right at that time the teacher walked in on the sight of Steve
cursing. She gives him detention that day and that was his
English teacher that Steve hated the most. He goes along with
the detention with no resistance and returns back home.
AT THE BEDROOM :
The Dad felt a bit bad for what happened the day
before. So he kinda wants to make it up to his son and makes an
effort. Steve is extremely angry and disheartened with what
happened and is just sitting in his room playing video games.
The dad knocks at the door and he calls him in. The dad sits
with his son and tries to reason with him what happened. But
he's still angry and doesn't forgive him. His father offers him
fruit as a gesture of kindness to his son. But he throws the fruit
fruit down the floor just like his father did the day before. The
father shocked, breaks at that moment and slams him at the
wall. He curses him and hits him with a belt. Steve blacks out
and falls unconsciously. This is a time when child support was
not so vastly improvised and so there was absolutely no hope for
Steve. His mother walks into the room and sees him unconscious
and cries and asks his husband "What the fuck have you done
right now !". The Father just storms out like nothing happened.
The mother carries Steve in her arms and they catch a car on the
way to the nearest hospital.
AT THE HOSPITAL:
Steve wakes up after being heavily bruised in the face
and neck. He asks for his mother. Mother was not found
anywhere near him and he started panicking. He started crying
and he was then consoled by an old lady in the next bed. By the
time he called for help and wanted to tell her of the abuse he
faced at home, her mother quickly came in. She told everything
was fine and took Steve home. The old lady sensed something
was fishy and went to report it to the nurse, but when the old
lady was about to tell the nurse, she forgot what she wanted to
say as she was suffered from Amnesia. Steve then returned back
home or what now he calls as his prison. Steve couldn't believe
the sad turn of events unfolding in front of him. He asked if his
mother loved him. His mother was unfazed and silent as she
pretended to not hear the question. Tears were falling as he was
in his mother's arms, in a loveless state.