Chapter 152

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Tuesday, 21:45 tines

A-four-year old boy lay in his bed. There was shouting in the other room. Chou, the Siamese cat that Grandpa gave Mommie, came in to sit with him. He always did when his father started to shout. Michael hoped he wouldn’t make her cry tonight. The last time he made her cry they had to go to the hospital.

She was gone for a week and while she was gone father yelled and hit him. Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore. He climbed out of bed. Chou pulled on the back of his pants trying to keep him in his room but he couldn’t let Mommie scream. Michael knew she was hurt. He went to his door and pulled on the lever.

His door opened and there was his father with the heavy baseball bat he used to play in to park with his friends on Sundays. He was dragging Mommie by her hair down the hall to their bedroom and her face was bloody.

Michael ran out of his room and started to beat his father with his little fists. All he succeeded in doing was making him angrier.