Wayne - Age 10
I heard the door click and looked at my bedside clock. it was 7 o'clock in the morning. no one should be coming into the house this early, Mum and dad are still in bed. I hope mum hasn't left me alone with dad again, even if it is just to grab a few things from the shop. I go to check the house with my baseball bat at the ready in case whoever shut the door was an intruder. Carefully, I open the my bedroom door so it didn't make a sound to spook the intruder. I round the door and tiptoe down the hallway to the living room. quickly, I turn into the small room with the baseball bat at the ready to strike any criminal on the head. I drop my weapon as i see my father, drinking again, in his favourite old chair. "Were you gonna hit me son?", slurs Dad, "Kinda girly to have a bat instead of a knife"
"Why were you out Dad?". I can smell the stench of drugs all over him, but at least it gets him off the topic of how 'girly' I am.
"Don't tell your mother" is all he says before going into a coma. He knows Mum will figure out whatever he had been to last night. I sometimes wish she'd leave him. she's afraid to I guess, she always needs to be taught a lesson. I don't know why though. I'm ten so I get lessons all the time, but Mum's finished school.
I walk back down the hallway into Mum and Dad's room where Mum is curled up in a ball with the blankets tossed back on Dad's side. I'm still a bit sleepy so i hop up onto the old mattress and pull the covers up, trying not to wake Mum. She looks peaceful for now.
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Before the Bloody Badge
FanfictionBefore th CBI (California Berau of Investigation), or even the realistion of a career calling, what did the young kids do? Did they ever cross paths somehow at one point of their lives? This is the story of the CBI team, before the badge.
