Why Did He Do It?

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Penelope was once again on the floor like last time,when she decided to expose her dirty secret to her mother. That afternoon Penelope was afraid that her father might come in thrashing into the room red as a devil, expecting the worst of all. For her luck nothing happened, at the time.

Around midnight something startled Penelope, it was her father. He was just standing there. He was looking at her like he had all those times when he was "incapable of thinking" or "unaware". There, such horror in her eyes that she could not bare to speak. She decided it was her only hope to buy time but it was no use because no one ever came to rescue her, ever.

"Aren't you happy to see your daddy, baby?", said the unshamed bastard. "It's been so long.", he continued. What was there to do? Nobody would help her and she knew it. "What's wrong baby, I won't hurt you, I never have, and I won't start now.", she stared at him with her hurt eyes.

"No!", she said in a plead thinking he would reconsider, but then again he never had before, why would he start now?

He came closer. She grabbed her alarm clock, swiftly in one move. Knocking him down, that was the easy part, but getting him unconcious was a little tricky. She decided, he was to pay for all those years of darkness in her childhood and her teen years.

The noise woke her brother.

When he walked in he helped accomplish what was to be done, "He deserves this and more." He looked relieved, satisfied but not quite happy.

Why had he helped her? What was his grudge against his father...?

He finally lie unconcious, "What are we going to do?", asked Penelope to Manny, concerned for their mother.

"Tell her everything, she has to understand why this happened.", said Manny. Would she understand or would she judge like she did when Penelope confided in her?