BROKEN CHILDHOOD

AT THE HOUSE:

The mom screams from below and asks his son, Steve to

lower the volume and that it's chaos down below. Steve quickly

responds to his mom and tells her he'll lower the volume in a

minute. He proceeds to lower the volume, but it still is loud. So

his mother walks in to the room without knocking. She gasped

as she saw his 13 year old son watching the infamous torture

sequence from American psycho and laughing and enjoying it.

She was scared that her son became insane. She pulls the tv plug

and slaps him hard and questions him. Enraged, she curses him

and asks what the fuck was he watching and who gave it to him.

She wondered why would someone 13 years old watch such a

horrifying scene on high volume and laugh at it.

She was terrified and upset. She says that he was in no way

eligible to watch that explicit content. Steve quickly apologizes

and says that its not as bad as it appears and that he'll make it

up to her. He pleads to her that he'll do anything to avoid

confrontation with his dad. His mom tells him to save his sorry

for his father for he is to take care of him.

AT THE DINNER TABLE:

The family of three is sat down on the dining table and

there's a pristine silence in the room. Nobody talks until the

father makes a first move. The father is a hardworking

conservative war veteran.

After a moment of silence, he tells his son that he heard

something happened that day and asked if he would care to

explain. The son quickly responds with a made up answer that it

was nothing and it's just mom overreacting for something small.

He also says that everybody in school watches it and its no big

deal. With a smirk on his face, he says mom's just a drama

queen. If there's one thing the father believes, it's respect to his

mother. This triggered him and he threw the plate on the walls.

The mother starts cleaning the mess in disbelief of what just

happened.

The father holds Steve by his shirt and says "Boy, you

better shut your mouth. Don't you ever talk about your mother

like that. That'll be the end of you. I don't give a flying fuck what

you watch; but if your mother says something, you better listen

and listen well. Or you'll have to face the consequences" He then

removes his belt implying what would happen the next time if

something like this happens again. Steve breaks down and runs

to his room in fear. Then the mother tells the father that he

could've talked some sense into him instead of belittling him as

always and throwing things. She asks him to control his anger.

The father admits and says "I may have gone too far but

don't you ever question my methods. I know how I was raised by

my father and that's the same way I'll raise my son as well. If you

have any problems with it, you can go fuck yourself."

Mother cries in disbelief of how awful things have gone

wrong for a small problem. Dad goes outside and sips on his

beer. Son is crying his heart out in his room. Mother is weeping

and cleaning the mess the father just created. The house is filled

with silent tears and a presence of a violent monster residing

among them.

(THE NEXT DAY)

AT THE SCHOOL:

Steve daps his friend Joshua and they get ready for the

class. Steve returns back his CD to Joshuaand tells him the he

wishes he never got the CD from him in the first place. He then

says the day before was a havoc and that his parents made a big

scene out of him watching the movie. His friend as usual just

funnily responds with "Well its on you man. You asked the cd

and watched it on high volume. Who in their right minds would

watch American psycho on TV in loud volume."

Quickly one of the students started spreading news

about how got his ass kicked by his dad the previous night and

soon everybody started mocking and bullying and laughing at

him and his family.

Enraged Steve gets up and tells everybody to shut the

fuck up and that don't ever talk about his family ever again.

Right at that time the teacher walked in on the sight of Steve

cursing. She gives him detention that day and that was his

English teacher that Steve hated the most. He goes along with

the detention with no resistance and returns back home.

AT THE BEDROOM :

The Dad felt a bit bad for what happened the day

before. So he kinda wants to make it up to his son and makes an

effort. Steve is extremely angry and disheartened with what

happened and is just sitting in his room playing video games.

The dad knocks at the door and he calls him in. The dad sits

with his son and tries to reason with him what happened. But

he's still angry and doesn't forgive him. His father offers him

fruit as a gesture of kindness to his son. But he throws the fruit

fruit down the floor just like his father did the day before. The

father shocked, breaks at that moment and slams him at the

wall. He curses him and hits him with a belt. Steve blacks out

and falls unconsciously. This is a time when child support was

not so vastly improvised and so there was absolutely no hope for

Steve. His mother walks into the room and sees him unconscious

and cries and asks his husband "What the fuck have you done

right now !". The Father just storms out like nothing happened.

The mother carries Steve in her arms and they catch a car on the

way to the nearest hospital.

AT THE HOSPITAL:

Steve wakes up after being heavily bruised in the face

and neck. He asks for his mother. Mother was not found

anywhere near him and he started panicking. He started crying

and he was then consoled by an old lady in the next bed. By the

time he called for help and wanted to tell her of the abuse he

faced at home, her mother quickly came in. She told everything

was fine and took Steve home. The old lady sensed something

was fishy and went to report it to the nurse, but when the old

lady was about to tell the nurse, she forgot what she wanted to

say as she was suffered from Amnesia. Steve then returned back

home or what now he calls as his prison. Steve couldn't believe

the sad turn of events unfolding in front of him. He asked if his

mother loved him. His mother was unfazed and silent as she

pretended to not hear the question. Tears were falling as he was

in his mother's arms, in a loveless state.