Monster

17

Blade slowly sat back in his seat, I smiled while I grabbed his bowl and placed soup inside of it and again back in front of him.

Blade flicked his hand and sent the bowl across the kitchen, shattering and splattering the walls with hot soup.

"Coco! Do not eat it. Go lay down." I ordered when I saw her walking closer to the food soaked in glass shards. I stopped and laid down in sadness that I could not have the table scraps.

My eye focused back at Blade whose eyes were darker than ever. I ignored him for the moment and continued to eat my food in silence, enjoying the taste of the food I made. If I could, I would end up eating spaghetti everyday.

After 15 minutes of silence, I was finished eating. "Okay. Since you want to act up- your punishment starts now. Clean the kitchen."

"No."

"Clean the kitchen."

"No."

"Cleeeeeeeean the kitchen."

"Listen here bitch-"

A fist of Blade's hair was in between my fingers- a smile on my face as I pulled his face closer to me, "Listen here Handsome, you made the mess. Clean it! Okay?" And yanked him to the kitchen and dug my feet into the back of his knees and forced him on the floor.

I handed him a broom, rag, and a floor cleaner. "Get busy." I smiled as I watched him waith arms crossed from a foot away.

He sat there unwilling to do any chores. This was not going to be easy.

"Go to your room."

"What are you? My Mom? He snarked back.

"I will be since she didn't do a good job of teaching you!" I snapped back.

That brought back ill feelings inside Blade and his rage took over.

He tackled her and they both went flying across the tile floor. He brought his fist up and as he went to slam it into her face, she grabbed onto his his fist and locked onto it and wouldn't let go.

"Did I strike a nerve?"

"Eat shit!"

"Tsk tsk! Such naughty words."

"I'm not fu€king five! Don't talk down to me you little cunt!"

I flipped him over and sent a jab across his face and pinned his hands next to his face, "I told you never to call me outside my name! You hear me?! Now! I asked you to eat dinner, you refused. I asked you to NOT call me outside my name, TWICE. You did not listen. You will receive punishment TWICE as brutal tomorrow."

"I don't give a shit! what makes you think I'll even be around tomorrow?"

" You are tagged the moment you are out of  reach from me, I'll get an alert on my phone and it'll only take ONE phone call to have a search helicopter out looking for you and an entire squad of special force ops looking for you." I smiled, "Try me."

"What do you possibly get out of this?"

"I get the satisfaction of knowing that perhaps you are actually a good person underneath the rough exterior."

"you do not know anything about me."

"what if I want to get to know you?"

"Why would you?"

"You're interesting."

"Fu€k off!"

"be grateful that I am even doing this for you. I am giving you a chance to redeem yourself or else you would be facing execution.... Now what sounds better, life or death?"

"I rather die."

"Why? So you don't have to face the guilt of murdering innocent people? The guilt of hurting innocent people? The guilt that tour mother is probably disappointed that her son turned out like this? Or the fact that you are too scared to go out into the real world since all you know is gang violence?"

Blade pushed me off him, " you talk too much." He had grown fully annoyed of me.

"You don't talk enough." I smiled.