Hope and innocence

Chapter 1

"YOU USELESS WOMAN!" my father screamed at my mom as he punched her.

A tremendous slap and choking followed, cries were heard as my two older brothers sat there in fear.

My oldest brother, Becan, was only 5 then.

Josh followed, being 4 and I wasn't born yet.

"Stop slapping me or I'll kill myself!" My mom cried out in despair, she held up bottles of sleeping pills clenched in her hands.

"I'll see if you dare, you stupid woman." My father spat, "you're just trying to scare me."

Trembling in fear, my brothers begged my mom not to kill herself. Tears streaked down her face and she opened the bottles of sleeping pills and swallowed the whole bottled.

"ARE YOU STUPID?!" my father screamed again, pulling my mom up by her hair and slamming her body around.

Her lifeless body lays limp on the ground.

"Get up!!" My father kicked my mom in her stomach. "Stop acting like you're already dead!"

Just then, the neighbours who heard the commotion came rushing, followed by the sound of police sirens and ambulance.

~

"Becan, sleep. Why won't you sleep?" My mother's friend, aunty Celia asked. She took Becan and Josh into her home for the week until further notice was given.

"I can't,  I'm scared. What if mommy doesn't make it?" His voice trembled, "that evil man threw mom around and slammes her head against the wall."

"It's okay, your mommy is going to be fine dear." Aunty Celia cooed.

~

"Mommy!!" Becan and Josh ran towards our mom who had awaken from her drugs.

"You almost died, we had to remove a lot of medicine from your stomach." The doctor said.

"Next time think about the boys before doing anything reckless!" Aunty Celia chided.

They proceeded to pack up and leave the hospital after four days of admission.

"Mommy will bring you two out afterwards, okay?" Mom asked Becan and Josh.

"Okay!"

~

While walking on the road down the street, there was a loud crash and broken glass flew everywhere.

"Mommy what's going on there?" Becan asked.

"Nothing, just a bunch of barbarians."

"What is barbarians?"

"Uncultured and brutish people."

"Then dad is a barbarian as well." Becan said calmly.

Mom was shocked as he was only 5 but he seem to understand everything thats going on around him.

"Don't say that. He is still your father after all."