Pete walks the school yard feling inprisoned in his daily guard. However he is not disheartened - sure he may be trapped at school, but he is not trapped at home where anything can happen any moment of the day. Pete rubs his hands against his pants as he glares at the school emblem in large art form by the front gate - he scoffs.
"I should tissue paper that statue!" he growls before he looks away.
Pete spies his brother Gary by the toilets taking a smoke, and he licks his lips - how he could use for some poison!
"I need a drink!" he gasps before he looks away.
Pete fast realizes that his hands are cold and he shoves them inside of his pockets before anyone realizes they are turninng blue despite the 22'c heat blazing down on them.
"I'm cold!" mutters Pete as he feels his brow sweat.
Pete moves to wipe the sweat away and cringes as his fingers cool his skin. Pete begins to cry under his eyes as he links his hand to a dead persons hand. In the back of his mind he remembers that he may have died, however he couldn't be sure since he had been young when he had thought that he might have had something bad done to him.
"I think I was electrocuted when having a bath;" he mutters in half-joke, but even then as he clicks his tongue he notices it is almost brittle underneath the slimy wetness that glazes his tongue. "But maybe I am just cold;" he tells himself before he shrugs and moves on.
The eye of a teacher follows Pete and he feels his spine stiffen as a result. He looks to the right and sees the teacher scowl, and he wishes to throw a stone at her head, but instead he waves. The teacher moves on and Pete is left to relax his tension down.
"I thought I was in trouble..." he mutters as he rolls his eyes. "I had better keep cool:" he adds before he shrinks to the shadow of a nearby tree to sit.
Pete walks with Gary back home - it is ten pm and both are sick of window shopping. In the dark they make their way down the street and to the empty street in which their house sits. The walk feels cold on their shoulders, and at each step their mouths which to talk about going to the movies while their feet ache to go to bed.
"I need to shower;" mutters Gary before he walks ahead of Pete to enter the house.
All is quiet inside the house and Gary happly treks towards his bedroom, Pete follows knowing that his bed is a patch in the corner of Gary's room.
"You feet stink!" tells Gary as he pinches his nose as he looks to Pete take off his shoes.
"So do yours!" tells Pete before he rolls a blanket over himself to lay down.
Pete closes his eyes as Gary moves to the shower to wash himself. When alone a shadow creeps into the bedroom and makes Pete's blood run cold. it is his mother Evon who snarls like a Nazi troll as she stand there lingering with a knife inside of her hand. Pete keeps his eyes closed as he tries to forget about Evon, but her footsteps approach and he grows ever more cold over what he should do.
"i should stab her with that stupid knife!" mutters Pete as he clenches his jaw.
However he does nothing as Evon crawls to bend over him, and soon she grabs her kife and stabs Pete in the ribs. Pete wishes to object but with pain searing through his veins he grows on a spiral ride which dances through his brain until the world disappears. For a moment he hops onto a horse and allows it to carry him around and around on a merry-go-ride, and when it stops he is laid on the basement floor.
"What is going on?" asks Pete before he slowly moves to stand.
Pete feels cold and sore, and he staggers as he walks while he fights feint inside of his mind. Pete walks up the stairs with few stumbles but relies heavily on the rail to climb up the stairs. Within moments Pete reaches the door and swings it open, and then he moves to enter the kitchen where Evon and her gambling buddies sit to play cards. Pete cries out to Evon.
"Why did you put me in the basement!" he shouts before he loses his breath.
Evon laughs at Pete as he struggles with his balace - she knows he hasn't figured out that he has blood on his t-shirt. and as his face grows pale she waves before he faints.
Two days pass and Pete recovers in hospital fast before he is allowed to go home. When home Evon pinches one of his wounds hard.
"This was a love-song;" she mutters before she pushes him towards the bedroom door.
Pete stumbles and swears under his breath as he steps inside his bedroom. When inside however he breaks down and sobs - his mother is so mean to him, why can't she ever leave him alone?
At school Pete and Gary smoke by the toilets to ease their troubles. Gary has a black eye from being punched by a school-student and PEte still has his sores from his own mother stabbig him in her fit of jealousy. Pete lets the niccotine waft through his lungs before the shout of a teacher alerts him to the fact that they have been busted.
Gary sucks in his breath.
"Teacher!" he mutters before he stuffs his packet of cigaretts into Pete's pocket.
Pete feels the heavy package and scowls before the teacher turns him around to smell him.
"You stink like cigrettes!" tells Mr Savv
"So you stink like drink!" tells Pete as he tries to shrug off the teachers grip.
"So stink, and you..." Mr Savv feels Pete's pockets. "You smoke!" he calls before he takes the cigarette's and pulls them out.
"They aren't mine;" tells Pete as he grows a feud inside of his mind. "They are my brothers;" he adds.
"Where is your brother?" asks Mr Savv as he glares at Pete.
Pete turns his head and see nobody behind him, he grows red face but hs eyes moisten at the helplessness inside of his heart.
"I don't know, he was here;" tells Pete as he grows soppy and wet.
"He is nowhere!" tells Mr Savv. "And you are to go home with an expulsion slip;" he adds before he urges Pete to follow him to the Principals office.
Pete walks home in a stroppy mood, and he throws his expulsion slip on the dinner table.
"What is this?" asks Evon as she raises her brows.
"Expulsion!" declares Pete as he glares at Gary and seeths. "That stupid so and so put cigarettes inside of my pocket!" he tells.
"Not!" tells Gary as he narrows his eyes. "The stupid oaf was caught smoking!" he announces.
Evon laughs as she gasps out her surprise.
"Well that's a crime!" she declares.
"You are the crime you stupid so and so!" tells Pete before he lunges across the table to give Gary a couple of menacing slaps.
Gary kicks the table and makes the plates sway as Pete has his gut bumped. Pete then climbs over the table to hit Gary once again, and within moments his mother Evon has his waist in her arms and she is pulling him off the table to drag him into the den.
Inside the den Evon hits Pete hard until his fighting hands fall limp, and then she grabs and axe and swings - the axe cuts a portion of Pete's hair off before it slams against the cement. Pete grows white with scared, but his temper makes him want to battle his mother and so he uses his hands to punch at her - he misses as he swings, and Evon pick up the axe and slams it hard - it hits Pete's chest and slices his skin open. Pete whimpers as he feels a hot sting and then he rests before the axe is pulled out of his body and thrown into the corner of the room.
"Don't hit me again!" tells Evon as tears run down Pete's face.
"Why are you always taking his side?" asks Pete as he glares at his mother with spite.
"Whose side?" asks Evon.
"Gary's side!" scolds Pete as he feels his heart sink.
"I take no one's side;" tells Evon as she crooks her head. "I am on everyone's side;" she adds.
"Then why do you love him and not me?" asks Pete as he feels his emotions slip.
"I love you both;" tells Evon as she shrugs. "You are both my kids;"
"Then you hit Gary with the axe!" tells Pete.
"Oh no!" scolds Evon as she steps back. "You were hitting Gary, you deserve to be punished;"
"Punished with an axe?" asks Pete as he gulps through a cry and a sob.
"All punishments;" tells Evon as she rubs her head. "You need to be given all punishments;" she adds. "It makes you good;"
"I don't want to be good!" tells Pete as he shivers. "I want to be left alone!"
"Then be good;" tells Evon as she shrugs.
"I don't want to be good!" screams Pete as he grows defiant.
"Then be bad, and your head!" adds Evon before she moves to go upstairs.
Pete smiles as he sees his chance! He fights his pain and crawls over to the fallen axe with a hand held against his gut. He picks up the axe and then he stands. With one arm he throws the axe before he stumbles back down onto the cement with some loose guts inside of his hand. The axe hits Evon and she screams before she stumbles into the basement. Gary pokes his head over the stairs and laughs before he leaves to call an ambulance.
A week passes and Pete is forced to stay in the hospital while Avon is allows to return home. She only needed stitches, Pete needs monitoring to ensure that he is not suffering any heamorraging or other ailments from having had half his body split in two with a fierce ae wound.
A few weeks pass and Pete is allowed to return home, when there Evon hits him with a sauce pan and flattens his face with it! Pete cries out as the heated pan burns his face, but after five minutes he is spat on and left alone.
"What did I do?" he asks Gary who glares as he smokes a cigarette.
"You threw an axe at her;" mutters Gary.
"Well she cut my body in half!" tells Pete as he scowls. "I had to spend three weeks in there eating hospital food;" she adds. "And what does she get? One day?"
"One week;" tells Gary before he laughs. "You get yourself in a fix;" he adds. "You can't even see you had a bleeding nose;" he adds.
Pete feels his face for blood and sees none.
"I don't know..." he mutters before he turns to face the mirror on the side of the room.
There is blood on the top of his nose where some bone has broken through.
"Now I need a nose-job!" he adds.
"Nah, just put a band-aid on it;" tells Gary as he shrugs.
"That might be an idea;" tells Pete as he runs strained fingers through his hair.
"i'm going to the book burning down the street tonight, maybe you want to come?"
"i just came from hospital;" tells Pete as he shivers over the idea of going for a walk. "I can't go;"
"It's down the street;" tells Gary.
"I'll watch it from the window;" tells Pete as he broods.
"You can't!" tells Gary as he grows a temper. "You need to catch the bus to get there;" he adds.
"I'll go tomorrow;" tells Pete as he closes his eyes. "I'm going to rest;" he adds.
"Come tonight;" tells Gary as he grows persistant. "I don't want to go alone;" he adds.
Pete laughs and opens his eyes to stare at Gary, and in the distance he sees Evon as she stands back with a knife inside of her hand. Pete stops laughing and stands, before he walks out the door - Gary follows after waving goodbye to his mother.
Pete follows Gary towards the bonfire which stinks like rotten meat being cooked after a month in the fridge. Pete rubs his nose and then looks to Gary.
"This place stinks!" he adds. "What are they cooking?" he asks.
"I don't know, they're burning books;" tells Gary as he grows white in the face.
"Books?" asks Pete as he raises his brows. "Books? This smells like meat! I bet there's a cow or a horse being roasted!" he adds before he steps through the crowd to see what is being burnt.
Books and magazines are being thrown to keep the flames up, but when Pete gets close enough he sees that there are dead bodies being roasted on the fire.
"This isn't what I thought;" mutters Pete as he grows sunk over seeing a dead baby corpse get tossed onto the fire.
Pete nudges the person next to him.
"Is this cremation of the dead?" he asks.
"Yes it is;" hisses the stranger.
"Why are they dead?" asks Pete as he raises his brows.
"They were killed;" tells the stranger as he glares at Pete with hunger inside of his eyes. "By us;" he adds.
"You killed all these people?" asks Pete as concern makes his spine stiffen. "Why?" he asks.
"Gang related issues;" tells the stranger as he smells the sweat on Pete's skin.
The burning bodies makes him hungry and he grabs Pete's arm to urge him towards the fire.
"Hop onto it;" he mutters.
Pete feels his heart break out in rhythems.
"Get away from me;" mutters Pete as he grows concerned before a push makes him stumble back.
Fire licks at Pete's shirt to make it warm, but it does not quiet ignight only burns the tops of the shirt thread.
"Get onto it!" tells the stranger in a rough tone.
Pete trembles as he looks around - he does not know what to do. He prays for a bird, and gets only the screams of his brother who has been grabbed to be urged towards the fire. Gary stuggles to get free, and when he does he punches the person who has grabbed him so hard they stumble back. Pete throws a punch towards the stranger he has met, and he gets gutted with a punch that causes his stitches to pop. Pete feels blood moisten his t-shirt and he groans, however Gary hits the stranger to make him stagger away before he grabs Pete's hand and urges him to run.
The two boys run, they run hard for twenty minutes before bursting into their mothers home to catch their breaths.
Evon glares as her sons lock the door and nestle on the carpet to tremble.
"What has happened?" she asks.
"Book burning;" mutters Gary through cold lips.
"Burning bodies not books;" tells Pete as he smiles over the pain lodged inside of his chest.
Body burning?" asks Evon as she grows white in the face. "That's gang!" she scolds. "Where did you learn about it?" she asks.
"Gary;" tells Pete as he looks to Gary who smokes as he shivers.
"A friend;" mutters Gary as he holds his arms against his waist.
"Well you don't talk to that friend again!" scolds Evon as she grows a quick temper. "You don't go out to see another book burning either!"
"I won't;" mutters Gary as his lips turn white.
Evon settles her temper down and she shrugs before she looks at Pete whose face has turned almost grey.
"You need an ambulance;" she adds as she sees blood on his shirt and arms.
Pete looks at his body and he almost shrieks as he sees blood. As he looks at Evon she is lifting the phone off the hook.
"You do care!" he exclaims as he smiles.
Gary rolls his eyes Pete grows illuminate.
"She cares about me;" tells Pete as he leans back upon the wall. "I thought she hated me forever;" he mutters before he finally blacks out.
In the back of his mind Pete runs towards Gary who is smoking before a large fire. He passes Gary and runs up the burning fire, and he keeps running until he reaches the top. With fire on his shoes he jumps up and down shouting out his victory, that he has won and is standing on the top of the Devil's mountain. A walk of black watches him, and Pete feels ever more powerful as flame rise high all around his shoulders dancing with him as he cheers.
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