The Problem Child

Three

Flashback

"Mom! Please don't hurt me!" Max screamed.

His mom didn't listen and punched him repeatedly in the face.

After five minutes of nonstop punches, Max's face was all blood.

He ran and hid in his room to cry.

He wiped the blood off his face and stuffed toilet paper up his nose.

"I'm not done!" His mother yelled from the kitchen.

Max knew to listen to his mothers orders so he sulked to the kitchen.

"What now?" He asked angrily.

"You don't talk to me like that you little shit!" His mom yelled.

Max flinched and blood puddled on the floor beneath him.

"Mother please no..." He said weakly.

His mom laughed evilly.

"You think that you, a lazy brat, will get a chance? Fuck that!" His mom screamed in his face.

Max's bright green eyes dimmed. He knew there was no escape from this hell.

****time skip****

The boy sat in the bacement alone and cried.

What provoked his mom to beat him was unclear.

"I will get the money. My life depends on it." Max promised himself.

He hugged the pamphlet of Camp Campbell close and sobbed.

Reading the price to make sure he smiled weakly.

$30. He had $10.

I'm getting closer...