Mute (Short Story)

Despairingly Mute (Chapter 6)

(This work is a short story. It has a Neji x Naru pairing. If you like it; read it, if you don't; then don't. It's up to you.)

I ran and swerved my way through the hallways. Once I found the staircase that would lead to the roof, I climbed them 2 at a time until I reached the door that opened up to the roof. Twisting the knob and pushing the door open, I went to my favorite spot and cried. I cried, because those words reminded me of the way that I became mute.

You see, I wasn't born mute. At first, my parents were really happy to know that I was on the way. However, later into the pregnancy my mother began to not want me after all. My father then, began to feel the same way my mother did. Not wanting to get an abortion 5 months and 6 days into the pregnancy, they decided that my mother would give birth to me and that they would keep me.

They hid their distaste, hatred, disgust and revulsion from me, but I could see those emotions deep in their eyes and their faces. However, they didn't act upon those emotions, nor did they do anything harmful to me as I had just been born. They clumsily, more like distastefully took care of me and my needs for 4 years. When my 5th birthday came around, they celebrated it. At the time, I didn't know better. I was just a kid hoping for his parents love and affection. Though I should've seen it coming, for they never celebrated my past 4 birthdays before. Hindsight as they say, is always 20/20.

Two weeks after I turned 5, my real 'Hell on Earth' began. My parents would beat me, choke me, harm me and cruel heart-shattering words would spill from their mouths. I lived with that torture for 6 months, until the day they took a beating to far. That day, my mother choked me so brutally, I couldn't breathe and my father slit my throat so deeply that he destroyed my vocal chords permanently, hence turning me into the mute boy I am today.

My parents after coming down from their 'giddy rush' only stared at me horrified. They weren't horrified by what they did to me, no they were horrified that they'd be found and sent to jail. So they did what any other 'sane' person would do, they grabbed their phones, left and went into hiding.

🤐-End of Chapter 6 on Despairingly Mute-🤐
Until next time.
Ja'ne.