Fuck, what are they doing home so early?”
My dog, Rosco, barked and propped his shaggy paws up onto the window sill, tail wagging with an energy which I could never fathom exerting for anything or anyone. The blue Honda pulled in, immediately followed by my father’s shiny Tesla. I hoped that he would get me a nice car for graduation because, at the time, things like that mattered to me. Quickly, I moved from the sofa and turned off the T.V. before slipping into the slatted coat closet. In hindsight, it was a stupid place to hide. But, I had stayed up all night to play Fallout, so I wasn’t exactly thinking straight.
What a shit day to skip school.
I heard the keys on my father’s massive keyring jingle as he searched for the proper one and
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Through the thin slits in the closet door, I could see my father drop the man’s arms and walk into the kitchen. Rosco continued to play with his new friend. His friend did not play back. The sound of drawers opening caught my attention and I could hear the low grumbling of my father, cursing my mother for her unintuitive organization of the various kitchen supplies.
“Bottom drawer, next to the freezer,” she yelled, somehow sensing his difficulty from the bedroom.
He cursed her again and shut the door, coming out with a thick roll of semi-clear plastic sheeting. As if setting the table for an impending feast, my father began to drape the plastic over the long wooden coffee table. Then he lifted the man, who seemed to still be breathing, atop the sheeting and covered the floors, taping the seams with focused precision. After completing the strange task, he bound the stranger’s arms and roped him to the table-top.
“Alright, is he ready?”
“Dammit woman, you’re always rushing me.”
“Oh? Well, I’m so sorry,” she hummed, walking into my view, dressed in something straight off of a Victoria’s Secret mannequin.
My mother hovered over the man for a moment before sitting on his stomach, crossing her arms impatiently and turning to the kitchen where, I could only assume, my father was presently standing.
More fumbling around, drawers opening and closing, my
Upon arriving at his house he quickly learns the ropes of his father’s way of handling things. Tre’ was not there for five minutes and his father had him raking up the leaves in the front yard. Later on that night his father fills him in on the other rules of the house. This showed me that there was a good discipline in the house. That type of discipline helped Tre’ out in the long run and changed his life for the better.
That night, I tucked myself in under the white covers of the spacious king bed. I awoke later in the evening to hear a thump coming from upstairs. I snuck out of bed, careful not to wake John. I crept upstairs, the wooden floorboards rocking beneath my feet. Pushing the door ajar, I peered through to see what was there. I pushed the door open completely, searching for a cause of the noise.
“well hello sweetheart, what are you doing here?” she said peering down at me in a nasally voice.
Inside the small house it was pitch black and completely silent. So dark, in fact, that one could not see their own hand in front of their face. The deeper into the house, the darker it became. Now into the family room and up the stairs.A distinct sound of scratching emanated from the door at the end of the hall. Inside, the room seemed to belong to a young girl, but only because the little girl nestled in bed deemed it so.
I walked to the baby carriage and looked at the the bundle of blankets. I took the blanket into my hands and realized that there was nothing wrapped in the plush blanket. “It looks like this might be a baby nursery at one time but I wonder what is behind the oth-” I said until interrupted by the sound of footsteps and whining behind the second door. I quickly ran out of the room signaling Anthony and Kevin to follow. We all hid behind the door once again looking through the separation between the door and the wall.
Mom was at the door. She swiftly raise her hand to mouth, a mother’s call for her child. Alice hugs me tightly, and runs into the house. Dad jumps at her. Alice screams and then beautiful laugh.
The first thing that people read is that the dad has been drinking whiskey. Just from that the reader feels like the father may have some type of drinking problem. Theodore explains in the poem how you can feel faint and light headed if his dad even breathed in his face. As Theodore hangs on to his father like its death itself; while they dance around trying to waltz. Waltzing was not easy for him, as his dad was drunk, and it is hard to follow his steps. Continue reading down to the next paragraph. The boy and his father end up in the kitchen, while they dance the poem explains that the pots and pans slid all around and of shelves itself. The reader gets a sense of rowdiness and clumsiness that the father exhibits. Continue reading the mother cannot keep a frown her face because the kitchen and everything is getting destroyed.
I’ll do anything, please!” he screams. “Who’s after you, Nephew? What are you doing?” my father asks as Benjamin runs under the table. “The British troops! I couldn't pay my bills and did not want to be imprisoned, so I ran” He says sobbing as a look of horror rolls across my parents’ faces. “I’m sorry Benjamin, but we can’t let you stay. What would they do to us if they found you here?” my Father states. “They would take us to prison as well.” “I’m sorry Uncle. I thought you would understand as he runs out the door. That night, I am awakened from a nightmare by a loud ‘bang.’ I run to my widow and look outside but I don’t see anything. Troubled, I fall back asleep. I groan as I realize it’s friday, in other words, chore day. I get up to make my family breakfast and I see my mother in the corner of the kitchen, dead. I scream and run to my Father who is still asleep. “Father, Father, Father get up! Mother is dead in the kitchen!” I scream in his face as he processes my words. As soon as he does, he rushes to the kitchen. “She told me she needed a drink of water and I let her go,” he sobs as I try to comfort him. “I knew it was difficult for her to lose one of her sons and no longer be able to write books or to her family, but I never thought she
She looked down at the coffee table to see a brown box filled with a few things. On top, she could see some family photos in gold color frames. “Thank you,” she said to him. She walked over to her father’s chair and sat down. She became aware of an uneasy feeling around him and wanted as far away from him as possible. It may have come from her dad complaining about him for a long time. She was now wishing for her uncle to show
Own had been visiting, and he had gone out to collect some herbs to help with Percival’s illness. Percival had just drifted off when he heard the front door smash open. Disoriented, he assumed he was dreaming. However, his mother’s earsplitting screams and the sounds of furniture smashing forced
Before Richard’s father left the family he used to be the provider of the family. He controlled everything that happened in the house because he was so overpowering. When he was around Richard and his brother were not aloud to make noise around the house during the day. Eventually
"I'm sorry," I hushed my speech as I strolled by, the girl sniffling as she looked up. Her eyes widened when she spotted me, and I phased my way through the door as she reached out a maimed
The minute my dad pulls open the shining steel door, I bound past him into the room. There, I skid to a sudden stop as I feel the exhilarating anticipation shift to horror.
"Sorry, sir." I blushed at my friend Taylor, whom I was discussing prom dresses with instead of doing my seemingly impossible work.
‘Come in,' he shouted as he placed the book in his drawer. When he looked up, Aunt Eliza stepped into the room. Something had upset her. Furthermore, she had that no-nonsense look on her face. He had seen that look before when she caught him sliding along the hall in his socks.