Psycho

In the beginging

Jacky's prospective

"Jacky Come down and eat please we have to go" said mother. We were on the run. Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself I'm Jacky. An almost normal child, with absolutely no friends, well except Arty. You may be wondering why we are on the run but mother and father were fighting again. Fathers out, so mom wants to leave. At this point I'm not sure why we try to leave if father comes back mother is in trouble. But mother deserves going downstairs because I would have no father if it was for mother. I like to go play with Arty when father smells of alcohol. Arty is my best friend, we have a lot of fun but only when I am allowed the forest. Sometimes father punishes me because I want to play with Arty at family time, so father gets upset and sends me to the coal room. That room is dark but I like to draw in there, I draw pictures of mother, father and me at the beach on good days.

At school well, it's school there is teasing and as you know one person gets teased that is me. As you get older the teasing turns into fights. When someone jumps me I punch back, so father always thinks I started it.

One day when I was little I remember me and father were playing and he dangled me off the balcony as he yelled at mother. I wasn't sure why to be honest I was scared, scared he would drop me. But I have other memories too good ones, ones that I want to remember, ones that make me feel good. Like the time when father and mother read to me just before bedtime. I feel like all this went away years ago, and never came back. As the days grew longer the terrible smell of alcohol became greater and overpowering. I knew not to bug father because he might loose his temper, and I might get a bruise or two.

When father smells like alcohol I like to go in the attic, I crawl in mother's hope chest because I feel it gives me hope. As I think in my hope chest I get an idea to help father instead of going to school, but of course mother says "no."

After I come home from school one day I find mother is not home. I find father and ask him where she went he has no clue but is angry. I think father knows she ran away, but at least now she can't take me with her. I love father and our silly games. As the days carry on no sign of mother,I know she's gone. Father has called the police and filed a missing person report. As I go to bed that night I reach my hands under my pillow as always but there is something wrong. Something is there, a letter from mother? No, it can't be she wouldn't leave evidence, she ran. But she did, the letter says"Dear Jacky by the time you get this I will not be at home but, I want you to know I love you dearly and you will never be alone just remember I am always in your heart." Love mother.

I think to myself how could mother be so selfish, to only think of herself and run away. We had a family and it was great now I cannot think of how this will end.

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