Knocking on the door the voices stopped for the moment, I can hear footsteps coming closer to the door. Steve's voices come through the door "he is here!, thank goodness",the twisting of the door knob made my skin start to crawl.the flew back the wind from the door brushed my hair back,Steve's face gave an expression of a man finding his long lost friend.I look past Steve staring right a his mother she was not as grateful as Steve was, her stare gave me the expression of a mother selling her kid for drugs. His left was trembling, he tugged me into the direction of the dinner table. Steve starts a conversation " I'm glad that you are back, oh that plate in the middle is for you". I grabbed the plate that was wrapped in alluvium foil, started taking the foil off the plate revealing the food underneath. While looking at the food, confusion and anger filled my mind. " What is this?!", Steve pointing at what is on the plate. " Well you have some sourdough, a slice of ham". I slammed my hand on the table " what is your deal?!, you don't know who I am. Or bout my past so why are you treating me like royalty!". Steve eyes were darting from my face and hand on the table, Steve pulled the chair back. Putting his hand on his face running his hand through his own hair out of frustration, " how about telling me more about you?, then I'll tell why I'm treating so nice okay". While I'm devouring the food that is set before me " do you want me to start from the very beginning, Steve puts his hand on my right hand that is clinching the plate. " It's okay I know it must be tough to talk about", I took a long pause before explaining the horrible story of my life. " Back where I'm from kids with gifts were used like lab rats", Steve's voice interrupted. " What do you mean like lab rats?, like a maze where they have to go find the cheese at the end of it?'. I slowly shake my head from left to right, " those rats at least were given a reward". " Sorry for interrupting", by the tapping of my feet on the hard wood floor, I started to get choked up talking about the events of my childhood." The first time I was introduced to that world was terrible, I arrived at that place in shackles. Walking through a town covered in dirt the people of this town were angry and frustrated at the sight of me, the faces of the towns people didn't change.I looked at the Auos who was holding the noose around my neck,"please sir!, tell them to look away I didn't do anything". The crowd got more angry so they started grabbing fallen tree branches, rotten apple or oranges tossing them at me. We passed kids about the age as I was swiping the tree branches they were giving to them from their parents. Telling " hit his ass do it for mother",the kid swung the branch at me landing flush against my head. The blow sent me into the body of the auos who was holding the noose, he sucked his teeth and tightened the noose. Lifting me off the ground. My vision was going blurry, started kicking my feet out of desperation. The crowd started cheering at the pain I was enduring," let us get a piece of that god damn murderer!". I looked around the crowd my vision slowly coming back to me, a piece of metal caught my eye.It came flying over the crowd hitting my right shine, cutting my leg open. After the metal fell to the ground several items started to fly over the crowd hitting me in several different locations. We walked down a path that led to the area where they were going to hold me for years to come, while on this path the Auos tightened and loosed the noose to cause me more pain. The crowd started to disappear, the table reappeared in front of me, the way his body was trembling I know that he understood why I didn't want to explain my past to anyone. Steve quietly got up looking away from me " How about you get some sleep?, Ok get some rest". I pushed the chair back away from the table while making my way to the couch, Glancing back at Steve but he avoided eye contact with me. I stood at the front of the couch plopping my body on the couch, looking at the ceiling fan drifting off to sleep. Hours went bye all I could think about is maybe hiding my past away from Steve, a loud scream came from the kitchen and made me jolt up from the couch. Steve's mom's voice came from the kitchen in a frightened way," please stop!,he had enough!".the sounds of bottles shattering against the walls made me rush over the sound, I poked my head around the corner of the kitchen. At the sight of the kitchen was a rude awakening of Steve's life behind his smile, I turned my eyes towards the direction of Steve. He was getting abused like an old rag, his mother's head was split open.Pieces of glass are stuck in her cheeks, a man wearing a green vest. Standing over Steve with his foot on his temple, the man's voice is slurred." I'm the m-man of the house!,you hear me I pay for the fucking bills!. You are going to respect me in my own house!". I can hear the neighbors voice from the other side of the wall, " shut up!, I got to work in the morning". His fist got tighter, he reached for another bottle twisting the top off. I tried taking steps forward but the look Steve gave me was a warning,the man came closer. The room seemed as if demons were in control of his actions, his breath was no different than the Auos. The mother rushed in front of him, blood was gushing down her left leg. Her voice was struggling to get out of her,"p-please baby!, he has nothing to do with this". His hand grabbed a hunk of her hair,her body was slugged across the kitchen. The impact knocked three plates to fall out of the cabinets, also causing them to break on the impact of falling the floor. As they enraged me got face to face, Darkouls voice creped in." Five!, leave him to me!", I am no longer in control of my actions after his statement. My vision in the left started to fade away,Darkouls voice entered the room.