Family
Prologue:
As soon as darkness fell, a woman walked into an alley, her two children trailing behind her reluctantly. When she reached a crate hidden behind a pile of garbage, she turned to her children and motioned for them to sit on the crate. Then she knelt down to their height.
"Now, you stay here and don't move." She whispered threateningly.
"Mommy, where're you going?" the oldest child asked, clearly frightened but trying to remain calm for his little sister.
"Just stay here and shut up!" The woman yelled at her child.
The younger girl began to cry desperately. The mother stuck her child across the cheek, and the child instantly quieted. Her sobs changing to sniffles.
"Good girl." She whispered before she left her children alone. As soon as she turned the corner both children broke into sobs before falling asleep from exhaustion, desperately holding onto each other for comfort.