Daddy

As rain falls so must the people who follow. Imagination as we know it is just a figment of the mind to escape the actual life we have. Many people wanted to be doctors, wanted to be a scientist, wanted to be a family guy, but the life we get is not always what we wanted. The people who want these lives make it where in their imagination they are free to do whatever they want. But life is not a  place where the imagination can run wild. Instead of being a doctor you get to work at a fast food restaurant, and instead of a scientist you become homeless and in debt from the student loans, and becoming a family guy with a good paying job to uphold your family, no your wife runs off and you never see your kids and you become a drug addict who ends up overdosing on cocaine that you thought was heroin. Life doesn't care who you are and what you have done. So I'm writing this for something to remember when I'm on the news in a body bag...

"What the hell is this? I told you if you ever said this to anyone they would take us away for what this says about the housing and life situation that you live in. Do you want your daddy to go away, do you want your mommy to go away. Huh. I swear if I catch you writing this I will end everything you have and keep you in the basement and never let you get out. No food or water till you're begging to come out and be good. Do you understand me? I said DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" She said in a rising tone which kept getting angrier and angrier in every sentence she said.

"Yes I do understand, but if you did lock me in the basement with no water and food then people would be asking questions and if you kept me down there long enough I could die." He said in a way that had a smug but intelligent sound.

"Are you back talking me boy?" She exclaimed in a way where she was going to get physical.

"No, no I was just saying..." He tried to get it out but they stopped him.

"Howard, what do you think we should do? Let's take everything away. No more bathroom or outside privileges. If you want to be treated like a kid in dangerous climates, then you got it." His mother had told him in a way that seemed she was talking down to him, just like an animal in a zoo whose life was only there for the privileges of the people around.

"Correct, go to your room now." Howard had told him in a rude and aggressive way.

"Okay, but..." he tried to say but they denied the comment and yelled. 

"I SAID MOVE IT YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP NOW!" Howard had yelled when his son tried to say something.

[He walks up the stairs towards his door and hears his parents]

"I'm tired of that kid. He has never done anything correct and we have given him a roof over his head and food on the table. What do we get out of it? A kid who never does what she's told and a boy who can't even do anything correct." Howard said in a muffled voice. 

        [He meets his sister at the top of the stairs]

"I hate them so much. Roger, are you okay? Roger. Roger." Roger's sister trying to get an answer out of him. 

"Ya. Ya I'm okay. Thank you Chrissy. Thank you for checking." Roger had said in a squeamish and quiet voice. 

"What happened this time? Did they see you cut the bread wrong or what? Chrissy said in a joking but questionable tone. 

"No, you know they don't let us in the kitchen. This time it was for the suicide note that I had written." Roger said while pushing himself onto the wall to have something to sit against.

"Oh no, why would you write that? How were you even going to get out in the first place? They have the eyesight of an eagle." Chrissy had said in a curious and worried tone. 

        "I was going to break the window and jump out and go down to the bridge and signal a couple cars. Once having their attention I'd tell them what was happening then jump." Roger had told Chrissy with snot in the nose and tears in his eyes. 

"Sh, don't talk like that. You know in a couple of  years we will both be out of here. Even if you go and try to, you know, they have friends in the higher ups of this state where if people said anything it wouldn't go anywhere. The court systems like them, the cops like them, dad is brothers with the mayor. It wouldn't go anywhere. Besides, if you do it then I will be stuck to face them on my own. So please don't do it I beg of you. Please don't." Chrissy told Roger in a way that she was getting emotional about the topic. 

"Okay I promise that I won't do anything." Roger said while looking up with a teary and a red face. 

        "No, I want you to promise you will never let go." Chrissy had said while taking Roger by the arms and staring him deeply in the eyes. 

        "I promise I will not let go." Roger had said while looking right back into her blue shining eyes from the tears she had been shedding while talking.

        "Good, now let's get some sleep before they come up and do bed checks." Chrissy said while climbing into bed while wiping the tears from her eyes.

[Footsteps approach the door]

"Is everything okay here?" Their mother said in a high form if she just got done with a ten hour drug fest. 

[No answer]

"good." she said in a delighted way.

[Morning rises Howard comes in] 

“Chris. Chris you know what to do, let's go.” Howard said while clearing the sleepiness from his eyes. He takes Chrissy out of the room Roger lays there pretending that he doesn't know what his father is doing with her but the sound is too much. 

[muffled yelling and moaning]

With a muffled voice Howard says “There you go, now be good.”

[Hours have past since Howard took Chrissy]

[Roger and Chrissy’s door opens]

“Roger, Roger where are you?” Chrissy had quietly exclaimed because of Howard being near. 

“Ya, I’m here.” Roger says with a quiet whimper. 

“I know you don’t like that, but you know that if I don’t they will hurt you and I can’t have that on my mind. I love you. You know that right?” Chrissy said with a tear in her eye and a hand covering herself. 

“Ya I do. I love you too. But you have to understand that you're my sister, and I would do anything for you. I wish we could get rid of them.” Roger said while shaking his head in his hands. 

“Maybe there is, we can kill them.” Chrissy looks at Roger with an idea in her face. 

“No we can’t do that.” Roger says while pushing her away. 

“Why not? Mom uses every substance known to man, and dad well after every action that he does he falls right asleep. So all we have to do is drug both of them with a sleeping drug and then we act. First we take dad out.” Chrissy says with a quiet glee in her voice. 

“But how will you take dad out? He Sleeps like a hound.” Roger says while looking at Chrissy with a questioned look. 

“Well I’ll take one for the team and invite him for a night alone. When he falls asleep I'll sneak you in. Then we end him.” Chrissy says with a fist in the air.

“But again how will you sneak me in? He sleeps like a hound and he'll kill us both.” Roger looks at Chrissy with a sorry tone because he knows the only thing that can happen is to go in.  

“ I know but I don’t want you in there when it’s going on. I won’t do that to you.” Chrissy says with a sorry look. 

“Okay but how will we kill mom?” Roger says with a look that says I know the answer. 

“We’ll wait till she’s out of it and either wait till she passes out or just smash a vase over her head.” Chrissy tells Roger with a slight chuckle.

“Okay but then what? We can’t just leave them like that.” Roger says with a downed look. 

“Okay we don’t kill them and keep them alive and do whatever we want with them.” Chrissy said with a look that says if we can’t do the first. 

“Okay well it doesn't matter we won’t do it.” Roger said with a chuckle and a sad tone. 

“Okay well let's get some sleep.” Chrissy says while climbing into bed and Roger follows. 

[Roger gets up to get a glass of water]

“Roger will you get me one as well?” Chrissy says while getting up and looking at him. 

“Sure thing.” Roger says with a smile while going down stairs for the water. 

[Roger comes back with a water one for him and one for her]

[They both drink their water and head to bed]

“Night Roger.” Chrissy says with a yawn.

“NIght Chrissy.” Roger exclaims while falling asleep. 

[Morning comes and every one is asleep except one]

[Roger lifts up his mattress and pulls out a note with a tear in his eye and reads]

     Dear Roger 

       I love you with everything I have. I will never forget the time we had. This isn’t goodbye. May we meet again. I wish we could still be together but this is what we have to do. I love you with all my heart. My dear boy I love you and this is not the end of our Journey I promise. I will always live within you and one day we'll meet again and I will hug you with everything I got. Me and your father have to go and do this. Don’t be mad of our decision this is for you own good. We can’t support three people. I pray you get a good home and a good family. To my little boy Roger 

“ I will always love you mom.” Roger says in between sobs.

“Chrissy I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for everything that's happened.” Roger says with a tear in his eyes. 

[Rogers goes to sleep]

[Chrissy wakes up and sees Roger]

“Roger what’s going on, why are you up so early?” Chrissy says with a tilted head.

“Hey Chrissy, good seeing you it’s the day before thanksgiving. I know I’m kind of sad at this time of year but I’m tired of that and ready to put it behind me. Besides your my family now.” Roger says looking at Chrissy with shining green eyes. 

“ Roger, are you okay?” Chrissy asks with a wondering tone. 

“Ya I’ve been down every year since it happened and I’ve made my peace with it. So please don’t bring it up okay.” Roger said with a smile on his face. 

“Okay. Little weird but okay. Let’s go down and get breakfast.” Chrissy says with a weirded out tone. 

“Howard, Samantha, how are you?” Roger said with a smile while walking into the kitchen. 

“Roger what are you doing you know they don’t like us in the kitchen. Get out of there before you die.” Chrissy tries to warn Roger before Howard and Samantha react. 

“Hush Chrissy it’s fine I got it covered. Howard, Samantha, how are you?” Roger asks again and thinks they must not have heard him. 

“Roger what are you doing calling me and your dad by our names and not mom and dad? Samantha says with an increasing angry tone. 

“Well you aren’t my real parents. You are just adopters who abuse their kids verbally, physically, and sexually Howard and samantha. Don’t try to answer. I know that you know it’s true. Howard you have been abusing Chrissy since I got here five years ago. When she was just nine years old. Samantha, you have been verbally abusing us and the only time you are happy is when you get a good fix or “just had a good time” with your boyfriend or mayor is that better. Now what else was there physical abuse which you both have been doing hitting Chrissy when she talks out of line which is usually “ hey can I go to the bathroom now, or can I get a break from you in me”, but with those words Samantha you hit her and Howard you do something else right? Oh that's right you tie her up, you use whips, chains anything you can do to get a rise out of yourself. So good morning to you and you and I will be wishing you two a good day while me and Chrissy leave and tell the police all about this little thing you have started.” Roger exclaimed with his arms crossed and leg bent leaning on his right while telling it to people with mouths open with a grinding of teeth. 

“ROGER!” Howard yells while he grabs him and throws him to the other side of the room. 

“ROGER!” Chrissy yells in return to seeing Howard throwing Roger. 

[As Howard is hitting a smiling Roger Chrissy takes a vase and smashes it over Howards head] 

“CHRISSY!” Samantha yells when she sees what she had done. 

[As Howard falls Roger gets up and goes for Samantha]

“Samantha come here. Come here Samantha, I’m just going to make sure you never say anything.” Roger says with a bleeding smiling mouth. 

[As Roger catches Samantha he puts her in a choke hold till she passes out]

“Roger, what have we done? This was only a joke. A way to put out the hatred we felt and now we killed them.” Chrissy says with tears coming out and her hands covering her face. 

“Chrissy. Chrissy, relax, you're just dreaming, just go back to bed. You're just imagining this. All the talk about killing them made you dream about it, that's it. Come on, go back to bed.” Roger says while trying to comfort her. 

[Roger goes over the sink to ge some water]

“Chrissy, here's some water.” Roger says while handing her some water. 

[Chrissy heads back up to bed after drinking the glass of water which tasted off to her]

[Chrissy wakes up] 

“Chrissy you're up. Good dinner is almost done. I was just coming up to get you.” Roger says with a smile and a cup of tea.

“Wait what? Why is it dinner? Don’t we have breakfast first?” Chrissy says while shaking her head with every question. 

“Well you were apparently so tired that you slept through the entire day. Come on before everything gets cold.” Roger said while putting a hand on her shoulder.

[As they walk down the steps Chrissy starts to tell Roger what happened]

“So you choked her out and told me it was all a dream and then I woke up in my bed.” Chrissy finishes telling Roger. 

“Well that’s weird, maybe we need to get that checked out with a therapist.” Roger tells Chrissy while putting bacon and an egg on her plate.

“ Oh that’s nice, where is mom and dad?” Chrissy asks while looking around. 

"Oh you don't remember they left to go on vacation they should be back soon or that’s what they told me.” Roger explains to Chrissy what Howard and Samantha did. 

“Oh ok. Well when are they going to be back?” Chrissy asked with a questioned look showing on her face.

“I don’t know. They didn’t tell me that.” Roger said with a smile.

“Ok well I need to get more soda pop.” Chrissy says while backing up her chair. 

“Oh let me get that for you.” Roger says with a smile.

“Okay thank you.” Chrissy says with a smile and goes back to enjoying her breakfast.

[Roger gets up and heads to the back room and goes into the fridge]

“Oh Howard, are you drinking the soda pop? Samantha I thought told you to watch him. Ok well don’t worry.”Roger said with a laugh in his voice. 

[Roger grabs the soda pop which was behind two jars and heads back in]

[As Roger heads back in he smells the food ready]

“Hey Chrissy looks like the rest of the food is done. Here’s your soda pop.” Roger says with glee. 

“Thank you Roger. What are we having anyway?” Chrissy asks with a question in her voice.

“Well Thanksgiving isn’t good without some meat right. I went to the store and got some fresh meat. It’s clean and ready to eat.” Roger says with a smile and intelligence in his voice 

[Roger pulls out a tray of cooked meat]

[Roger cuts a few pieces and gives some to him and Chrissy]

“Oh this is really good, what kind is it?”Chrissy asks with a guessing tone.

“Oh local meat. It was terribly easy to get it though I thought it would take longer to obtain but nope.” Roger says with a smile. “I really like the skin of it. It's nice and salty.” Roger says with a smile.

“Oh ok.” Chrissy says with a laugh.

Breaking News

Howard and Samantha Baster have gone missing. The mayor of the city has taken in their kids. A police search has been in effect since reporting. Any information is welcome. 

Howard and Samantha’s bodies were never found.