The Puppeteer Part 3

The Puppeteer - Him as a father

Loneliness..

Zylen had learn loneliness before he could remember.. to be left alone in the darkness..with no one to talk to.. no one to look at to.. Zylen had became a quiet child.. he was only forced to talk when he wants to apologize..

That's what his mother teach him.. every single time.. to apologize

As she bring him some leftovers.. she watch him..as the small hands feed himself..she doesn't even want to touch him because he was dirty..

Zylen was sobbing as he eat.. he was so hungry..

After he was done his mother would leave him. And that was a very heartbreaking moment to watch.. how tears filled up his eyes.. how he apologized.. wanting love and affection from his own mother.. he would look up to her, whimpering.. calling for her.. trying to touch her.. spreading his small trembling arms to the air wanting his mother to pick him up.

But she shrink away.. disgusted..

And when she close the closet door.. Zylen curled into himself on the floor and started crying.. calling for his mother again again.. like he was chanting a prayer.. sometimes he would even knock on the door.. bit he learnt despair from such a young age..

How painful his little small life is.

To face soo much pain even in his young age..

He was like no other child..

Everyday.. he was filled with tears..

Everyday.. begging for food.. begging for attention..

He never know why he was treated this way.. he never know he shouldn't be treated this way.. all he knows.. he is very upset..

Locked away in his life.. doesn't know how to talk much..

Even if there are times when his mother clean him up and gave him toy to play.. or TV to watch it was when his father was not around..

But most of the time they got caught.

Zylen who was playing quietly.. heard a commotion.. the next thing he heard his mother was slapped..

And afterwards he will be approached by his father.. he ran.. tried to hide.. but his father always catch up to him.. and he would ran around the house with his little legs which would easily be overcome by the large step of his father.. screaming.. crying.. begging to be forgiven.. until he was backed up to a corner.. beaten

It never took much to silent the poor boy..

After a few assaults.. the child would be quiet.. trembling in the verge of passing out..

Tears .. tears.. one after another

That's how his childhood begins..

Completely destroyed to ashes..

He was always thrown back into the store room..

Crying.. crying.. unable to take the loneliness.. the separation from the world.. his parents never took him out from the house.. he never knew how does the sky looks like .. he never knew sun or even moonlights.. until he was sold away..

"..mommy ...m-..om..." he whimpered. Feeling scared.. afraid of the dark.. afraid of the loneliness.. the feeling he never knew what it was..

Days after days.. then he will find himself wailing.. reaching his breaking point.. wanting to be held.. wanting to be loved..

"Ma ma!!! Mama!... Maaa..."

..mama.. mama...I'm scared.. mama..

As how cruel his life was..just as fast as he found his father standing at the door.. looking down to him like he wanted to kill him... Yelling down to him "Why don't you just die!! Huh!!?" He grab him and yank him up so fast "I had enough with you !! You worthless scum!!"