This was a mistake. I shouldn't have said anything. I should've sat down in my seat...shut my ass up and eat that damn food. And then I'd wake up again, doing the same thing tomorrow. Play some Dratsmate in between, then do the same things the next day. And the next day. And the next day....sigh. There was no point to be made when it came on to confronting Mother about her nonsense. I'd just have to wait until she wasn't so emotional...
To my surprise Sharp, who never took anything seriously, stretched his hand out across the table, resting it on Mother's head and stroking it softly. Cheesy sprung up, running around to the other side of the table where she was at, standing by her side he bent over, attempting to pick her up gently. I sat there awkwardly in the same spot, my lips twisted into a knot, head still down. I felt like I started all of this..
At that instant, Mother shoot up, her face drenched in tears, her eyes tightened and contracted, focused on me.
"You!!!! " She came around the corner waving her finger at me.
"You ungrateful!!!! Look at this life of comfort I've provided you all with!!! Look at how safe it is here. You three are never starving, never having to hunt or struggle to get food, you all eat every day!!! There are no dogs, cats, or birds here to kill you or injure you, and here you are talking about wanting to go outside!!...."
"Your...an ingrate!!!" I slumped back into my chair, being frightened by the force of Mother's scream, her voice ascended so high that it boomed throughout the room.
My eyes couldn't have been wider than the plate that was in front of me. I had no idea that my question would've enflamed her this much...she went from weeping about her sad past, to wanting to kill me. Maybe I really should accept my fate and not say anything...maybe I was going to die in here, having never seen outside.
"I won't see my loved ones slaughtered before me again you hear me??" She pointed at me furiously, shaking her finger; turning around she put her head into her hands and ran away through the peephole, whimper and snivels escaping her cuffed hands as she bawled.
"Mother!!! Wait- " Cheesy ran off behind her, going through the peephole.
Sharp looked up, beaming me a look of annoyance.
"Great going Burrow. Really sticking it to the authorities there champ" he pretentiously gave me a thumbs up and ran out after Cheesy and Mother, vanishing through the exit.
I sat there in my chair, motionless and shocked; my eyebrows rumpled into a line of skin and creases, my eyes blinking rapidly.
"What....?." I asked aloud, not yet fully comprehending what just happened.