>>100536669"Goddammit woman, where the fuck are my snackers!" Filly shouts as he throws a rum bottle in Vedala's direction. Vedala winces as, thankfully, the heavy glass bottle misses by inches and lands on the stained carpet instead.
"C-coming dear..." Vedala hurries, trying to wipe away pooling tears from here eyes as she rummages in their dusty pantry for the last remaining Welch's. When she emerges from the pantry carrying only 2 packets of snackers, she trembles in fear at the abuse she would soon receive. From the corner of her eye though, she spots her two darling children, Neuro and Evil, who were fathered from an earlier marriage with Annatoliy, with a concerned look for their mother that seemed to overcome even their own fear of their stepfather.
Weakly, Vedala manages a smile whose pain she failingly tries to mask. "It's going to be okay, sweeties." She mouths in a low voice to her daughters. For Evel, this pathetic stature of their once strong mother standing before him, finally broke the camel's back. With a grim, determined face, he was going to stand up to that monster that conquered their mother.
"Aw dangit" Filly cries as his football team once again misses a goal. "Goddamn useless niggers, useless bitch, useless kids; everything in my life's fucking useless!". Suddenly a form shifts in the darkness, to his side. It's the brat, he thinks snidely to himself. "What now, kid? Got your mommy crying? Gonna try to defende her honor again?" Filly lets out a bellowing, beastly laugh that rattled Evel slightly.
"Haven't you learned, you little shit?" He attempts to rise from the flattened sofa, but Evel doesn't let him. With blind, almost fanatical hatred gleaming in his eyes, Evel finally reveals the knife he'd been hiding and lunges forth. Vedala watches with solemn apathy as she tries to hide Nero from witnessing the gruesome scene.
Once the deed was finished, the family leaves the house, uncertainty in each step they take. Who would take them in? Thomas? Cesar? Maybe the boys' father, Annatoliy? It doesn't matter, once the authorities catch up to them, Vedala plans to take credit for the murder, and her boys would go... god knows where. She hoped they would grow strong and healthy. That's all she hoped for, and that's all she could hope for.
