Unsettling Malfunctions

Breakfast Torture

DATE: February 4 2013

In Mitchell's home in Beaumont, Bernadette was at the kitchen making smørrebrød for Bailey to take for lunch, when she noticed a photo of Natalia with kiss marks? on it. That day was not only Bailey's first day of high school, but Mitchell's first day of work at Bailey's school. Bernadette started to worry about losing feelings for her and she thought that her husband will get back to Natalia.

Bernadette thought to herself, Natalia works at Leighton High School, and why would Mitchell want to work there? ...that's it! He wants to have a second chance with her! I'm going to kill him! So she neutrally projected to Bailey, who was in the bedroom dressing up for school, "I'm going to go and get your father." He didn't reply.

Soon, he heard banging, clashing and all sorts of loud noises coming from his parents' bedroom, but he carried on, getting organized. When Bailey walked out the bedroom, he sauntered downstairs and into the kitchen, where his breakfast of raisin toast and corn flakes was ready to go into his hungry stomach. Before he could finish eating his breakfast, he saw his angry mother drag his lazy dad onto the dining 'king' chair.

There, Bernadette held Mitchell's mouth open, and stuffed half eaten raisin toast into his mouth. Bailey watched in horror, as she poured a packet of corn flakes into his mouth and washed it all down with a mug of very hot coffee. Piercing screams were made, and Bailey had to get out of here!

Mitchell broke off of Bernadette's hold and held her up to the wall. He boomed, "What do you think you're doing? One day, we were a happy family, and the other day, you went psycho!" Bernadette kicked Mitchell's groin and held him up to the wall, and boomed, "What do you think you're doing? One day, we were a happy family, and the other day, you have feelings for Natalia!"

The rebellious couple stopped fighting when they saw Bailey standing at the front door. Bernadette told him that he can catch the public bus to school and back home. When Bailey walked out the door and closer it shut, it went from peace to war.

Bailey was at the bus stop, nearby the supermarket parking lot. He went to grab his school bag, but accidentally touched a boy's private part. The boy got up from the seat, grabbed Bailey by the collar and aggressively him to the ground, "Who do you think you are, touching my manhood!" Bailey replied in a stern mood, "You're a teenager, not a man!" The boy revealed his teeth, which frightened Bailey, making him think he's going to get bitten. Bailey fretted, "I didn't mean touch you, please don't hurt me!"

Bailey's tears made the boy feel sorry for him, but when he turned around, he saw his male friendship group. He wanted to be cool, so he turned against Bailey. He lifted him up, and tossed him onto the road. A red Ferrari was on the road, and that meant this might be the last of Bailey. Bailey thought to himself, I hate myself now, so come on, kill me! Soon, the driver slammed the brakes and Bailey nearly got hit.

The driver got out of the red Ferrari and revealed himself as Bailey's father, Mitchell. Bailey and his father quickly got in the car, and the two drove off, leaving the mean boys out. Bailey asked Mitchell suspiciously, "What are you doing here? Aren't you with mum?" Mitchell replied back neutrally, "I escaped. I can't come back home, but I need my things, though. Your mum thinks that I still have feelings for Ms Natalia Miguel, your possible home room teacher you met at Orientation day last year."

Mitchell and Bailey finally reach Leighton High school after getting involved in repeated traffic jams, and almost causing car accidents. The trouble was, they were at the school's parking lot, and they could not find a place to park Mitchell's Ferrari. In the next five minutes, Mitchell gave up circling around the school's parking lot, considering all the parks were claimed, and decided to park at the Beaumont hospital's parking lot.

Mitchell drove out from the school, onto the main road, past the mall, and into the hospital, which meant that the boys needed to walk a long way to get to school. Mitchell and Bailey got out of the car, grabbed their bags, Mitchell locked the car and the boys walked away. "Problem solved!" Mitchell said, feeling determined, and not looking at his son. Bailey looked at his father and said, "Yeah, I guess, except that you can get fined if you don't get it out of here in the next hour." Mitchell told him, "They can go fuck themselves. I need to go to work." And they winked at each other.

The father and son finally reached Leighton High school. They walked through the school's parking lot, which lead them to the middle school campus area. The middle school campus area had a beautiful fountain with a swan sculpture in it, green grass for children to sit and eat, all circled by home group rooms, with an undercover area. There were obviously a lot of middle school students playing outside, and waiting for their home room teachers. Mitchell could not believe his eyes. He saw his ex-wife walking towards him. She dressed in black. He hid behind Bailey, because he assumed that she is going to attempt to murder him. Instead of attempting to murder Mitchell, Natalia pulled his timetable from her back pocket and handed it to him. She spoke, "For fifteen years, I believed I killed you, but then you turn up at my school, with a son of your own. Now I'm guessing that baby was the same baby your stupid mistress was pregnant with, when she was drunk." Bailey flicked his fingers at her and stood up to her angrily, "Ms Miguel, how rude!" Natalia fought back, "I'm sorry, am I too personal?" Mitchell told her, "Bailey wasn't here because of me cheating on you, smart ass!" Natalia kicked Mitchell in the groin and boomed, "At least Bailey was healthy when he was born after all the bullshit drugs Bernadette took!"

Bailey teared up, and disappointment flickered on Natalia's face, when she turned to him, "I'm sorry, Bailey. I didn't know." "Well you can stay away from my son for his benefit!" Mitchell exploded at Natalia. This didn't scare her, "Excuse me, Mitchell. I'm the new principal of Leighton High school, so beat it." Natalia turned to Bailey, "What home room are you in?" Bailey told her that he was in 8M, which then frightened Mitchell, because his ex wife teaches his son for home room. She added that she is also his English and Home Economics teacher. Frightening enough for Mitchell? I think so. Meanwhile, the clock strikes 8:30am, and Bailey hugged his dad goodbye. He followed Ms Miguel, past five doors until he reached 8M home room. When he neutrally walked inside, he asked his teacher, "Why do you hate my father so much?"

Ms Miguel replied back in stress, "Your father was on drugs, years ago. Before you were born, your father decided to rape your mother and boot her out the house so I won't know." Bailey weeped a tear and spoke in a deep voice, "Are you telling me that I was born as an accident?" "I'm really sorry, but I think that's what it is." Ms Miguel spoke in despair. Bailey stormed out the room, and shut the door on his teacher, before she could stop him. He sat on the bench, leaking tears from his eyes, without howling. He thought to himself, I'm an accident, after how much I tried to make my parents happy with my good grades. I'm an accident and nobody truly loves me. How dare my parents lie to me. I hate myself for living.