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The Pathway: A Short Story

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Inside a dark, dusty apartment was a harassed room that had furniture in positions and places they shouldn’t have been in and a 12-year old boy named Jake who couldn’t move. With a couch that was on top of a smashed T.V. and much other distraught content, Jake was slowly being crushed by a steel table and his situation could only get worse. Jake’s body had already become numb and he had long since given up trying to escape or be saved. The situation had transgressed to this level the night before last when Jake’s drunk father Edward who was on a down from using all the households money in gambling and many other situations; this current situation was the result of Edwards rage.
Jake’s family was originally well off; he lived in a nice house …show more content…

He wondered himself why he failed to comply with his father, since it would usually result in a better outcome. Edward decided that Jake won't do as he says which angered his possessive side and marched at him in a rage and smacked his head which threw him off the lounge with brute force. Jake cringed on the floor with his hands over his head trying to protect himself and prayed that his father would settle down. Contrary to Jake’s prayers, Edward was not finished and kicked the lounge with tremendous force over the lounge room and slammed against the wall. Jake was within the zone of danger of the lounge and dived to the side in reflexive …show more content…

Jake realized that he was nearing the limit of his fleeting life and felt a wave of nausea hit him, but even this feeling was short-lived and was interrupted by the sound of knocking. By this point Jake couldn’t have even dreamt of answering the door but still attempted to call out to them but could only work up a meekly wheeze that was barely audible. He realised that this was the loan sharks who were at the front door from the knocking pattern that they had. Jake had listened to them knock several times and had picked up their habits, this person knocks using the back of his fist and usually knocked five or six times sequentially with a two second break between each set. Jake laughed at his weird hobby but cringed in pain as his laughter shifted the table from resting on an already numb place on his body

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