Perfection

The chance to end the misery

After watching TV for an hour Aedan decided to head to the basketball courts down the road. He really enjoyed playing sports, often he would just join a game that was already going on. Today a group of teenagers about his age were playing a friendly game with each other, so Aedan decided to join in. “Do you mind if I play?” he asked, “You could I guess” said one of the boys sceptically looking at him. “Hey aren’t you the guy that keeps cutting the animals to pieces in Biology class?” the boy asked after a while, suddenly all of the other guys stopped the game and joined them both. “I never cut any animals into pieces!” Aedan answered with more tension in his voice. “That’s not what others have told me” said the boy. After this Aedan suddenly felt great anger that filled him so he decided to leave before things got out of hand. He always avoided using violence not like his father, but sometimes he had to punch a wall to get rid of it.

Once Aedan had returned home he could see his father sitting in the living room in front of the TV. Naturally he tried to avoid his father’s presence, luckily it seemed like he was sleeping so it was safe for him to walk through the room into the kitchen where his mother was sitting. It was a great surprise for Aedan to see his mother sober at this time, but something was wrong. She looked as if she had been crying, “What’s wrong Mum why are you crying?” As he looked at her with more attention he could see bruises around her eyes and mouth. “Your father lost his job today, he is upset so just leave him” she said. Aedan realised at this moment that because he wasn’t here his father had taken his anger out on his mother. His father hitting him was one thing that he could deal with but what he couldn’t handle was his mother getting hurt by him. The anger he felt at that moment he couldn’t avoid, he had enough of his father and the way he treated him and his mother. He grabbed the first knife he saw and ran into the living room where his father was still sleeping. “Aedan what do you think you are doing with that knife, put it down right at this moment!” his mother screamed. But there was no way that he could put it down again, his heart was beating so fast that he felt a sudden rush throughout his body. He could kill his father and end all of this, no more abuse. At this point Aedan decided there was no way back, with one strong thrust the knife was stuck in his father’s chest, his hand started to get covered in blood. His father now awake started to scream. Aedan’s mother suddenly fainted and fell to the ground.  Aedan let go of the knife and ran to his mother. “Mum, mum are you alright?” his mother slowly opened her eyes again. “What have you done? Is your father still alive?” she asked in terror. “He doesn’t deserve to live, for years he has abused me and now he also abused you! I can’t take this anymore!” he shouted. His mother pushed Aedan away and dialled 911. After five minutes an ambulance arrived and took his father to the hospital. Of course his mother had insisted to drive to the hospital with her husband. Within ten minutes the house was dead silent, Aedan walked into the living room where the floor was covered in blood and sat down on the couch. He didn’t know what he should do now, it was impossible to stay at home after stabbing his father.

After packing most of his clothes and some food Aedan headed out onto the street, from now on he would have to find a job and live in his own apartment. He decided to look around town for any open jobs that he could start and earn money. After searching for two hours he gave up, already he was tired. Aedan found a little alley which had some old blankets in a dumpster that he could use to lie on for the night. Luckily it was summer so the nights weren’t unbearably cold. Aedan planned to spend a night in this alley and then go look for a job in the morning.

Lying on the hard ground wrapped in old smelly blankets gave Aedan time to think about what happened on this average Friday. He came home from school, found his dad asleep, his mother crying and abused and then of course the part where he stabbed his father and nearly killed him. All this thinking made him tired and so he managed to somehow fall asleep.