Lotus McNamara

Chapter 3

Lotus was awoken the next morning by his father and taken outside to the backyard, there was fog that hung heavily and the grass was wet. A perfect morning to start his training, by his fathers definition anyway.
The father had told Lotus to dress in a short sleeved shirt and shorts so he wouldn't get too hot doing the regular things like push ups and sits ups. Which was what they started with, push ups. Lotus couldn't do much, getting tired after 12 push ups and giving up. His father shook his head in disappointment and picked up stick, jabbing it into his sons back. "Get up. Your not done, Lotus."
Lotus yelped, getting up and rubbing where the stick jabbed him. He got back into a push up position and started again, glaring at the hook that still hung in the backyard. He growled as the memories flooded his head, the days he got bruises and cuts from that idiot brother of his.
The whole morning he didn't give up again, even if his arms started shaking from the weight being put on them constantly and if his abdomen hurt from the sit ups. He pushed through the pain and focused on his goals, he needed to get better than his brother so he can get a taste of his own medicine.

For weeks Lotus trained, slowly losing weight and gaining muscles, a healthy body, and a chance to take over the cartel from his brother and get revenge for the torture he endured while his brother lived with them. He didn't have that belly that made him self conscious and he ate better so he would never get it again. He didn't want to feel like a useless child again.

Lotus is now practicing his punches with a deer carcass that hung on the hook in the backyard, landing hard punches on its body, pretending it was the body of his brother. His last punch breaking the skin of the deer and making the entrails of the animal spill onto the ground. He smirked and flexed his hands, he called his dogs to come eat the entrails of the deer so the wild animals didn't come into the yard. He went inside the house then showered and had a healthy dinner with his father before going to bed.