(Trigger Warning: Child ab*se and Neglect)
Darren:
"Mommy! Where are we heading?" I asked, trying to keep up with her pace as she pulled me into the adjacent room after daddy left the house. I had come back home after so long that it seemed like an entirely new home. I missed being here. And now I have made another good friend here.
The moment we entered the room, she began to lash out at me unexpectedly. It caught me off guard, and I couldn't even muster a scream.
"What have I told you about being on my side?" she said, pinching my cheek.
"But you were wrong there," I murmured, tasting blood in my mouth.
"Oh! So now your mother is wrong. Then who's right, you little troublemaker?" she slapped me, intensifying the pain in my mouth. It wasn’t something new. She would always attack me
