Chapter Three

- 10 Years Ago : Age 6 -

I crawled into bed, I was sniffing, and wiping my eyes dry with the back of my hand. I heard my parent's arguing in their room down the hall. I clamped my hands over my ears and fell over on my bed.

"Don't you dare walk away from me; I'm speaking to you! I know you've been out fraternizing with other men!" My father shouted, it echoed down the hall and slipped under the cracks of my door.

"How dare you! You accuse me of cheating?! How preposterous! You're the one who is cheating!"

"I saw you just the other day with a man, you two were having dinner in Applebee's! You can't possibly deny it, I saw it with my own two eyes!!"

"That was my boss, we were discussing my promotion! If you would've listened to me when I got home, instead of sulking, you would've heard me announce my promotion at dinner!"

"Sure; Like I'm just suppose to believe the lies you're spewing from your mouth?"

"Lies?! You--"

I heard something smash against the wooden floorboards of my parent's room. I sat up, yanking my hands away from my ears and race to my bedroom door. I reach up and turn the doorknob. I padded down the hall, my parent's bedroom door was slightly cracked open. I peeked my head in, there was a lamp smashed against the floor, little shards of glass were scattered. I pushed the door open a bit farther and stepped inside. "Mommy? Daddy?"

Both sets of eyes fastened on me as I stood, transfixed, in the doorway.

"Honey, Daddy and I are having a talk right now. Go to bed right now, okay?" My mother whispered.

"No you're not, Mommy... What's happening...?" Tears welled up in my eyes as I watched them.

"Nothing, Sweetheart. Go to bed, please." She smiled at me.

I sniffed; I still stood there in the doorway, unmoving, watching them.

My father walked swiftly over to me, "Go to bed! This doesn't concern you!" he growled. Then he pushed me out into the hallway before slamming the door shut in my face.

I ambled down the hall, into my room, and crawled back on my bed. I curled into a ball as great round tears slipped down my cheeks.