"Steven, get you lazy son of a bitch ass down here and help your mother out," my Dad screamed from the kitchen.1
His abuse was sickening, he had been out all night long, and was drunk, wasted, just completely of his face. Only when he cam home, thats when the fun really started. 2
He came crashing through the door, pissed as a fart, staggering through the hallway, right into the lounge room.3
"You worthless Lot of shit," he slurred, pointing his fingers drearily at all of us, "Your pathetic you know that, all of you sicken me".4
Just like old times, insulting us all for what, he was the one that looked pathetic, he was the one that was a worthless mold of shit, what a bastard.5
This time though, unlike any other times, he wasn't just pissed, he was mad. 6
Mad you ask me, crazy, insane, no more like infuriated. Mad enough to kill someone, maybe, more or less just mad enough to break something, knock it over, smash it into a thousand pieces , mad enough to scream for hours and hours until his anger died down to a dull resentful silence, so then when he was satisfied he would move along and lock himself in his room, locking my mother out and sleep until the early morning.7
Sure he would count to ten, and apologise, start moaning woefully against the wall and cry. Like I said this might had not been the same, but sure enough it was a start to being like the normal. Predictability had its way, as he rummaged through the house, destroying everything in his self-destructive path.8
I thought somewhere between things getting ruined and him counting to ten, Mum had whispered something that only he had heard, or he seemed to have heard, maybe it was all in my head to, but I was sure I heard Mum say " It's over."9
It must have sent an immediate shock wave of horror right to the very core, of his bitter-black heart, to hear those words from my mother.












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