chapter 4

Today was one of the worst days of my entire life. Mother was even more awful than usual; she had made me wait in the basement until my brother fell asleep. When she called me upstairs I had wondered why mother hadn’t beat on me all day. I tried to walk slow as I fear what would happen when I walked through the door. When I opened the door there sat mother with her booze in hand. She told me I already knew I wasn’t getting dinner. I knew then she wasn’t going to beat me. She walked over to the kitchen sick and filled a spoon of ammonia; she started to walk towards me. I started to walk backwards when I hit the stove I stopped mother got closer, I said to myself “that’s is, this will be too easy” I opened my mouth as my mother rammed the spoon down my throat. My throat closed and I fell to the floor trying to swallow the awful taste of the ammonia. I pounded on the floor mother slapped me on the back a few times and I burped, I gasped for air taking the largest breathes I could. Mother knelt down beside me and smiled finished her booze and walked away.

chapter 3

Today was a retched day, mother and I when I came home from school. I rushed to my room to change for the club scouts. When I saw mother she was furious. I could tell that mother was mad; she grabbed me up and plowed my face into the mirror. She dragged me as she rushed from the house to the car. On the drive to the den mothers house she scream and hollered at me, I was so afraid I tried to scoot closer to the door but it was no use mother reached over at me and started yelling. When we arrived home she made me stand but the stove and strip down. When she ran at me she was yelling and started pounding me to a pulp. She’s started telling me how she had read an article about a mother the made her son lie on a hot stove. I froze and mother put my arm over the blaze flames from the stove. I tried to get away but it was no use. I struggle till my brother Ron got home. I survived another day.

chaper 2

Today was a good day I never seen mom like this but she was in a good mood all day. She came home with all the brand new barn red paint and a bunch of rubber mats. I sat on the stairs as she rushed as fast as she could on painting the stairs. As I watched my mother rush to get them done she was getting paint all over her and she didn’t mind it even though she was always such a neat freak. She started putting the mats down and nailing them into the stairs so they would stay in place, but I didn’t really understand this because the pain was still dry. When she was finally done she walked over to the couch and crashed out. While she laid there I asked her why she put the mats down while the paint was still wet. She said to me “I just wanted to surprise you father when he got home.” I didn’t really understand it because mother was always so neat and clean.

"A Child Called It" - David

Today was a little rougher than usual, I can help but worry that mother is going to hit me again.When I showed up to school today mother told me to tell the teacher that I ran ran into a door. I had no time to steal anything for lunch. As I got called to the office they asked me all the same questions that they did every day when I showed up. When she asked about the bruises, i quickly responded that i ran into a door, but she caught me and said " didn't you use that excuse last week. I quickly tried to change my story so mother wouldn't get mad.When she sent me back to class all the students looked at me in discuses because, of my old close and smell.I fell so distant from the other students and just wanted a friend. My class didn't even end before i got called back down to the office. When i arrive the was a sheriff and my consular I saw her crying and couldn't help but to think that i was going to the Juvenal hall but at least mother couldn't hit me while i was there. When the cop took me from school he assured me that mother would never hurt me again. when we got to the police station he called mother and said " Mrs. Pelzar your son is staying at the Juvenal court house if you have and questions talk to them," then hung up.I have never felt this way i wasn't afraid that mother was going to hurt me.