His voice was in a panic " Please stop!, I've done nothing wrong. Why me!?, don't touch the others!". Elizabeth finished the blessing " amen", I opened my eyes quickly and paid attention to Marcus to witness what was happening to him.His head was twitching from left to right his grip became unbearable, my mom rushed over to see what she can do to stop it. She started shaking him to wake him up, but it didn't stop him at all. She pulled his eyes open, her scream reminded me of when my father comes home late at night. Marcus finally comes back to us ten minutes later,Marcus looks around the room confused about what had just happened. The room was suffocating with awkwardness, Elizabeth started placing sections of the meatloaf onto the plates on the table. Mom made her way back to her seat, sitting back down. I decided to kill the Awkwardness," hey Marcus can you explain, more about yourself because right now I'm getting a lot of red flags right now". The look of my mom was like great timing, Marcus while his head down at the table," you want me to start from the beginning". We all looked at Marcus, my mom took he left hand placing it on Marcus's. He took a deep breath before he started his explanation, " well when I was little, I was walking through a town in chains". Mom's voice interrupted the rest of his story," why?!, why would they do that to a child?!'. The room became quiet again like we all just witnessed a murder in the middle of the room,then Marcus said something that made our months go dry." That was the easy life, the ten mile walk was hell. Kids around my age were encouraged to mock me". I was going to ask a question, but I told myself just to listen. He continued his story" men that believed in higher power told me that I deserved much worse. That's when I realized that I was all alone in that world,that place that gave me these scars is a place I cannot name".Elizabeth cut through his story like a hot knife through butter," why could you not say the name of the place?". His eyes met Elizabeth's " cause at the age I could not read properly, also half way through the walk they put a bag over my head". Her face turned blue after the response of Marcus," I've never figured out why me!?, there were others but I stepped in before they could hurt them".A sobbing noise could be heard around the table, the noise stopped his life story once again. As I followed the tear trail It led to my Mother wiping her tears away, " sorry, you went through all of that since you were a child, did they not understand that you were just a mere boy". Marcus response sounded as a warrior's last stand against the enemy," they didn't care!, that was their job!". His story hit harder than giving a single father of three an eviction notice, but there was a sense of lies in his story or maybe it's just a sick joke he made up in his head. Tears coming from my mom and Elizabeth were in sync with each other, while the tears falling on the table was making a sweat harmony.Marcus asked a question that shocked us to our core, "are those tears for me?' I took a gaze at Marcus my voice was chocked up." Y-yes, how could they do that to you at such a young age?!', Marcus replies was too simple. " That was life for me,can't change the past what they did in that building even the devil would turn a blind eye to it'." The first experiment was to cry for my parents help, a.k.a break my will. They would hook two prods inside of my head and create scenes with it, the first scene was me standing bare naked face to face with a predator". Mom's voice was crawling out of her vocal chords," please tell me you're referring to a predator as an animal, like a lion or a killer whale". Marcus didn't say a word he just shook his head, the one that gets registered and goes door to door". Elizabeth rushed to the bathroom the sound of gaging made what he experienced to another level, his next statement made that past trauma less heart arch."Before he could do anything to me, they ended the test as I screamed for help from my parents." I was brought face to face to the monster who thought of the idea.", Marcus stood up from the table without looking at us " do you mind if I use the shower?".I pointed to the door where Elizabeth was puking her guts out, Marcus grabbed his bag and made his way in that direction.Elizabeth almost tripped on Marcus, she was struggling to hold in the puke. She made her way back to the dinner table where we were just sitting there stunned, Elizabeth clinched her fist trying to find the courage to speak. " Guys I don't think he is lying!, during the prayer I was having an episode from his past. How did he find the strength to keep going". That was the first time where my mother was mad at something that she couldn't control," how!, could someone do something so fowl?, can you imagine going to a new place where the first people who took you in did unspeakable things to you!. All he had was himself". She kicked her chair back from the table," I bet you he is parched from talking all that time". She was trembling while making her way to the kitchen, so many thoughts were racing in my head. Marcus came back with a smile on his face, every time I looked at his face I started to get chocked up. He started to look at the extra meatloaf on the table, his voice was quiet like a child hiding from their parents after doing something bad." C-c-can I have another bite?', gave him a gesture to go ahead. He grabbed another piece of meatloaf,and My mother came back with the water.