"As our son, we demand you to obey everything we say, or else you will receive punishment, understand?"
Dusk had surrounded the Xiao long household, while the two daughters, Yang and Ruby were having sweet dreams. The other son, David, was being scolded by his parents... Again. "But why my sisters can—"
*SLAP!*
"Argh!" David screamed in pain as his mother slapped him in the face. "Don't say 'why', understand!?" Shouted mother Summer. That made David speechless. "That's right, don't fight back. The parent is absolute. Tomorrow, we need you to cook breakfast and do the chores for us or else!" Said father Tai menacing. "... Yes sir..."
"Well then, good night!" shouted Summer as she left the basement with Tai, slamming the door and shut the lights off, Leaving the mangled David in the dark... Crying. The basement was his room... No. It was his prison. Normally, it was a place where the Rose and Xiaolong family dispose unwanted domestics ranging from furniture to electronics. It serves as David's 'living quarters'. Everything was crude compared to his sister's. They have the posh beds, cool toys, nice clothes, to name but a few. But for David? He has nothing, except for torn clothes, a wooden bed, and a metal collar attached to his leg, which is connected to a fixed wall. He curled into a fetal position and warped himself with his only torn blanket on the wooden bed (if not a boulder) trying to sleep for the night... *** That was eight years ago when it happened. Up to today, the twelve year old David still remember those days. Every day he would wake up at 7 a.m. to do Summer and Tai's bidding, despite after some beating he received the day before. It was daytime that he can move freely around the house, as if the family expect him to do the housework as a daily basis. On weekends, he would be used by sister Yang for 'target practice'— as a training dummy for her to either vent her rage at the poor boy or training with Ruby on a daily basis.
Come on, man up! No brother of mine is going to be a weakling!
Weak little rat.
You stink
Such a disappointment, how can YOU deserve to be with us?
Mom! He stole our cookies again!
Those words by his sisters echoed into his mind every time he sleeps... How could the two were able to get away with every trouble they made, and let him took the blame? Why was he even hated in the first place? David didn't know the answer.
Everyday, the Roses, the Xiaolongs treated him like like a slave, beat him senseless, feed him scraps and not allowing him to leave the household. ***
"Wake up you little shit!"
These are the first few words that David Rose woke up to every single morning, followed by an kick to the stomach, making him groan in pain. It was his father Tai, yelling about David's chores for the day. "Go upstairs and make breakfast! Make sure you do it better or else!" Heard his father's orders, David instinctively ran upstairs to the kitchen, not because he wanted to, but to save himself from being beaten by him and Yang. The last time the family beat him into a bloody pulp, was one week before, when Ruby accused him of stealing cookies made by Summer, and he paid the price. Till now, his purple eye has not fully recovered yet, and that came from a punch from Yang, with her shotgun gauntlet on.
Every day, David would start the day by cooking some eggs. He would go to the refrigerator to get them, and see that picture on it.
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