Chapter 9: Weak

"You have no place in this household, fucker!" a voice says to a young child. "You are a disappointment to this family's name!"

"Hey stop that!" another voice said. "It's not his fault he doesn't want to become a deadbeat like you!"

A slap is heard in the distance. "Shut the fuck up, you fucking cunt!" the voice says again. "It's your fault our son is being raised like a pussy who can't stand up for himself!"

"If you don't even wanna raise him, why did you get me pregnant in the first place?" the other voice says.

"If I knew he was going to turn out this way, I would've demanded you to abort him!" the voice says.

As a younger Joshua was hearing his parents bicker once again about him, he just sat in his room crying. As he was packing his things, the words his father said kept clouding his mind. His couldn't stop crying tears of rage because he couldn't protect his mother. If I can't protect my own mother, how am I supposed to protect anyone?

As he goes downstairs, his father runs at him with a bat in hand. Joshua turns to him, stone faced and stabs him right in the chest. When his father fell to the floor, gasping for air, he stabbed him again in the leg. Joshua looks around and sees Daki looking at him wide eyed. Joshua looks at Daki and starts to cry.

"M-mommy." Joshua tries to clear up his words. "You should pack up too, I don't want you getting hurt anymore."

Daki nods her head as they both leave the house. Joshua's father lays on the floor trying to crawl up to Joshua but when his hand reaches Joshua's foot, Joshua stabs it and slams the door right on his arm. As his father lied there, all he could think about was getting vengeance.