One early morning Charles hurries downstairs to the sound of his dog barking continously. The sound of his dogs cry makes Charles heart ache, deeply. The cause of this is because his neighbour, Klaus, is an animal abuser. Charles skin transitions to a deep pale colour, shocked to see the state of his dog in this moment. Klaus turns his head furiously knowing that he's been caught by Charles.
Charles dog's name is fond to be Martin. Martin has been with Charles for fourteen years, ever since his mother and father got divorced. Charles decides to call his mother stating that Martin has just been hurt by Klaus. His mother, Lisa answers the cellphone in a panic knowing that this has to be an urgent situation because Charles never dares to call his mother due to her being a night shift nurse working in the intensive care unit. As Lisa proceeds to answer her phone she could hear that Charles was in a state of shock. Charles carefully describes to his mother what just happened. Lisa then quickly rushes to her bosses office requesting to go home, her boss allows her to leave.
As soon as Lisa gets home she sees the blood dripping from Martin's jaw, she rushes over to Klaus and looks him dead in his eyes. Charles speeds upstairs to get the first aid kit to put gauze over the open wound.
Lisa instructs Charles to get into the car with Martin. Lisa drives off and heads to the pet clinic, as they arrive Charles rushes in to the clinic with Martin, the doctors offer help immediately. Charles and his mother sit down in the waiting room hoping to hear good news. Martin was told to stay at the clinic over night so Charles and Lisa decide to head home. When they arrive Charles goes to his bedroom and starts getting emotional thinking about all of the bad possibilities that could happen but then something strikes his mind.
Charles starts to think about his mother's reaction to Klaus, the way his mother had said nothing to Klaus and just looked him in the eye. He shakes off the thoughts and decides to try and get a good night's sleep.
The next day Charles has to go to school, sitting in class his mind drifts off think about what had happened yesterday but he had a presentation and couldn't let it get the best of him. After the presentation he goes back to his desk and finishes his day at school. When Charles arrives home he takes a nap knowing that Martin is in good hands with the nurses.
Later that night he wakes up to Lisa coming home, he goes downstairs and decides to have a chat with his mother about the reaction she gave Klaus, he starts asking why and she cannot seem to respond. Charles starts questioning his past knowing that something is off but he cannot find any details because he has always know Klaus as an animal abuser.
The next day after school he decides to go and give Klaus a visit, he rings the bell but nobody seems to answer.
Charles sees an opening at the left corner of the window, he makes a brave decision and decides to sneak inside the house. The first place he goes to is Klaus's bedroom,rummaging through the drawers beside the bed. Charles falls to the ground as he sees something he never wished he saw in his life. There were pictures of his mother with bruises and third degree burns. As he looks further there were pictures of himself. Charles cannot seem to wrap his head around what is happening. He runs home again through the same window he snuck inside making sure to leave no traces behind him.
As he is sitting at the dining table having dinner he gets a phone call from his mother telling him that Martin is at the risk of dying due to an increased infection inside of his jaw. Charles breaks down into tears rushing back to Klaus's house as he hears him pulling into the driveway. Out of anger he shouts, "Why would you do that to my dog, he's going to die because of you and you couldn't give a care in the world. Did you know that dog has been with me since I was born? How could you be like this?"
Klaus then responds saying, "Why should I even care when your mother has been with me since before you were born. The only reason I heard your dog was because everyday I think about how your mother left me."
Charles gers emotional again and runs back home. With tears in his eye he decides to go sleep.
The following night his mother arrives home with bad news,Martin has died.
Charles cannot cope with the information and cries right away. As Charles is sleeping he hears a whisper,opens his eyes and sees a white shadow looking like Martin.
For the following years after this, every night Martin came to visit Charles.