𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗, 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖓 - 𝐐𝐀𝐅

⁺₊✦ - 𝖯𝖱𝖮𝖫𝖮𝖦𝖴𝖤 .

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Lorenzo "Enzo" Kenney , the one and only Brian Kenneys son. Not that anyone could even tell, as both parties made it their life's mission to stay far far away from eachother at all times.

or well, brian made it his life mission from the moment Enzo was born.

Enzo just went along with it because, hell? Who the fuck was he to try and contact a man who made it damn well clear he wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.

he had his momma and that was all he needed,

or atleast it used to be.

his first 7 years of life where pretty good, perfect even if you put aside the financial struggles his mother went thru trying to keep both herself and her baby up.

She worked two jobs and had so many "side hussles" you could just barely count em on all your fingers and toes if you tried.

she was always doing something, and Enzo was always right there with her. From as far back as he could remember too 7 years of age he was always in and out of different places ranging from fast food restaurants all the way too shoved in some corner of shitty trap houses, full too the brim with junkies and wanna be ass thugs. It wasn't ideal, but enzo couldn't hold that against her, she did her best there for a while and enzo was grateful for that.

during those first 7 years, enzo only saw his "father" a total of 3 times. Once when he was 2, wich he doesn't even remember, he only knew about it because he had went snooping thru his mothers things one day while she was gone and found a picture of them together, his father holding him infront of some random ass bar, both of them cheesing hard as hell.

the second he actually could remember. He was about 5? Maybe 6 and it was his birthday. He remembers how excited he was that day and all the ones leading up to it. Although she tried too hide it, His mother didn't seem as excited as him.

Enzo was a smart kid, he saw right thru her fake smiles every single time.

He never knew why she wasn't as excited as him until he accidentally ease dropped while she was on the phone one night.

he was supposed too be asleep in the tiny full bed they shared, instead he was up and wide awake. He was too excited too sleep, his birthday was only a week away after all.

What he didn't expect, was for his mother too get up and speaking too someone on the phone. She was whispering, seemingly trying not too wake her sleeping five year old up.

Obviously, that didn't work. Her whispers grew too be whisper yelling wich let enzo hear her clearer.

she was begging whoever was on the other end of the phone too come too his birthday party next week.

"please, brian!! You don't even have too stay the whole party, just come by, bring her a present and be a father for ATLEAST fifteen minutes!!"

she sighed, her hand coming up to pinch the bridge of her nose and her red squeezing shut before she spoke, her voice coming out softer and breaking at the beginning.

"just- please brian. I've never asked you for anything. This is the only thing I've ever asked you and the last thing I ever will. Please, just come by."

and that was all he heard before sleep was taking over his body and he was out like a light.

the following week, brian did show up. Not only did he show up, but he also bought enzo the biggest stuffed hello kitty he'd ever seen.

Enzo was excited, this was technically the first time he had met the man AND he bought him what was possibly the coolest toy he'd ever owned? Awesome.

although brian didn't exactly look happy too be there, he still smiled whenever enzo smiled, laughed whenever enzo laughed and got that look in his eye when enzo would come up to him or when he hugged him with all the strength his little body could muster, yelling a million "thank you's" for his brand new stuffy.

that was probably one of the happiest moments they had together.

the next time enzo saw him, he was 7 and it was right before everything he had known got torn away from him and his life fell all too shit.

Enzo had woke up late at night, probably around midnight when he heard yelling and sobbing coming from the other room.

he immediately sat up in his bed, whipping his eyes and confusingly looking to where his mother should be laying beside him and then outside the cracked door.

"momma??" he yelled, his voice slightly raspy

From sleep. He heard muffled yelling again, along with the desperate voice of his mother crying out.

"please, brian!!" she yelled, so loud he was sure the entire apartment complex would wake up. enzo slowly got out of bed, gripping his teddy bear tight in his small hands and walking to the door.

"no, Gianna! We've already been thru this. I'm not taking her and that's it. You called me down here in the middle of the damn night claiming she was hurt, just so you could beg for me too take her?? What the fuck is that!!" he heard a familiar voice boom even louder.

Enzo slowly crept closer to the commotion, peaking around the corner with slightly fearful eyes.

"I can't do it anymore, brian! I can't afford it and I'm only going to fail her. I'm begging you, just take her with you so she can live the life she deserves!! I know you have the money for it, just please!!" The woman quiete literally begged on her knees, gripping onto the man's leg for what seemed to be dear life.

"momma??" their arguing was cut short by a small voice interrupting from behind them. both of them turned to look at him immediately, all the color draining from each of their faces.

"lj." brian spoke softly, his voice suddenly losing all its bass and his whole body practically melting at the sight of him.

"lo, lo baby, go ahead and get back in bed. Momma will be there in a minute." the woman on her knees spoke, her voice shakey and broken from all the crying and screaming she'd did.

"but momma-" he tried, but he was cut off by the only other male in the room.

"listen too your mom, lj." it came out so harsh that it made Enzo flinch and look up at him with such fear filled eyes it nearly made brian flinch too.

the sight of those big brown eyes filled with so much fear and the way they suddenly gathered tears in them would probably be stuck in Brian's head for the rest of his life.

"go, baby." his mothers soft voice spoke. He immediately turned and ran back to the room, clutching his teddy bear so hard his knuckles turned white.

he ran into the room, slamming the door and launched himself onto the bed, pulling the covers over him all the way to his head.

the tears finally fell as he hugged his teddy, nearly soaking it. His whimpers where muffled by the stuffed animal while he tried too calm himself down.

he ended up crying himself to sleep that night, alone.

after that night,

nothing was ever the same again.

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