Ray woke up in the morning alarm clock blaring, he reached over and slapped the sleep button. "Raymond Manuel Toro! You get up this instant young man! And stop hitting your alarm clock! I paid good money for that!" "okay mother," Ray said as he slowly got out of bed rubbing his eyes. He turned of the alarm on his alarm clock and thought that he should probably get ready for school.
Oh gosh another day of school, the place where I'm a nobody. An outcast. A loser. A weirdo. Ugly. Fag. He looked in the mirror his small afro type hair and his glasses. Who would ever even like me? He thought. He slipped on some pants over his plaid blue boxers, and a Iron Maiden t-shirt over his bare chest.
Walking into the hallway he saw his brother Blaze running towards him, nearly knocking him over as he ran to his room in tears. Ray quickly ran after him, "what's wrong Blaze?" Ray looked down at his six year old brothers brown eyes and sad face. He put his arm around Blazes back trying to comfort him "Make daddy stop doing his bad things! Make him stop pwease way?" It used to make Ray laugh at how he would say way instead of Ray but this was serious. Ray looked out the window and saw his dad out there with a wad of cash, Ray knew what he was doing. It was sad that even Blaze knew that his dad was selling drugs. Ray was outraged, "stay here, I'll handle this." thank you way, your the best big bwother ever!"
Ray walked out of Blaze room to the front door, he stormed out of the house heading for his dad. "Dad! How could you do this? Its bad enough that you take drugs! You don't need to sell them too!" "Raymond, you better watch your mouth! I do what I do to help this family survive! I need to have some other job besides working at that factory, I don't make any money! Your mother can barely hold a job too so watch your mouth or you can go live in the streets!" Ray's dad yelled at him. "did you ever think about what your doing to Blaze? He knows what your doing, do you want him to grow up to be like you?" Ray said more calmly now. "Raymond, I am not talking about this anymore, I do what I have to do to survive in this world." Ray just looked at his dad with sad eyes walking into his house.
As he walked in Ray could smell bacon, his mom was making breakfast. "Mom? Is it almost ready? I have to get to school soon." "yes I know Raymond, I'm trying my best, just go finish getting ready." Ray went upstairs and got all his stuff together, then going into his brother's room he comforted him a little more and told him that everything was gonna be okay. Even though Ray knew that was a lie, he didn't want his dad arrested again. Especially not in front of Blaze, he hugged his brother and said "you have to get ready for kindergarten buddy."Blaze took out a colorful shirt and some strange pants that did not match the shirt at all. "Way? Can you pwease help me get on my cwothes." "Of course buddy." Ray helped him into his clothes and packed all his stuff into his miniature backpack and handed it to him.
They headed down the stairs, Ray heard his mom crying. He knew it was because of his dad but he called for her anyway as he walked into the kitchen "mom?" he saw his mom wiping tears from her eyes and face quickly and said breakfast is done as she handed them strips of bacon. "Eat fast and hurry to school kids I have to do laundry, be careful on your way there." Ray and his brother scarfed down the bacon and started walking to school trying to stay away from the crack houses.
Ray stopped at the elementary school with his brother and wished him a fun day in kindergarten and hugged him telling him he'd be back after school. Then he slowly trudged onto to his ultimate nightmare, school.