"Please don't hurt me, daddy! I-I'm so sorry!" An 11 year old boy named Mathew Paterson screamed as his father chased him into the shed. His father made hats for a living and the shed is where he stored his mercury to do so. Mathew looked around, scared for his life. All he said was no and his father exploded in anger. 'Away…' He thought. 'I have to get away!' He looked around the shed as he heard his father's giant footsteps. He was really mad now. He looked up and smiled as he saw a small window that he could just fit through with his rib caged stomach. He started to climb up the wooden shelves that his father put the mercury barrels on. He heard a small crack and froze but discarded it as he heard his father getting closer and closer. He finally reached the top and eeped as he looked down at how high he was. "Not now, Matt. You need to escape this fate." He told himself and opened the small window, ecstatic that it actually opened. He smiled before he heard a louder crack. "Oh n-" He was cut off by the shelf breaking and he fell on the floor, breaking his back on the hard cement but that wasn't the least of his problems." The whole shelf broke and 5 barrels of mercury fell onto him, breaking open, and coating the boy head to toe in mercury. He had opened his mouth to scream and mercury, a large portion, went down his throat and into his stomach. All he could smell was mercury but he didn't have a chance to be worried of his mercury poisoning before his father busted into the shed and grabbed him by the back of his shirt. "Daddy…help me…" He begged his father. His stinging with the poisonous substance as he was crying bloody tears. His father growled and set him down before he put him over his knee. "I knew you were a mistake the day your mother came home with you!" He screamed at his son and began to blister his bottom. Emptiness. That was my only emotion at the time. I was scared, hungry, and alone. Please don't leave me mommy….DON'T LEAVE ME!