Horrible Headache
Prolouge
THUD...
THUD...
THUD...
THUD...
The sound startled her right out of her sweet slumber. She wasn't sure of what exactly was going on but with each THUD her younger siblings became more terrified. One child, a 10 year-old girl, ran over to her older sister's bed and crawled in. With the sounds of THUDs the eldest heard the youngest crying in his crib. She patted the young girl on the head and tiredly walked to the infant and craddled him in her arms ,yet he would not stop crying. It even made the eldest daughter paranoid due to the fact that the unexplained sounds came from their parents room. She stared down the hall and began to daydream. She was daydreaming of what could possibly make such a simple yet horrible noise. Thoughts of them arguing came to her head...No there would be shouting. Thoughts of them being intimate came to her head...No it was somehow hard to believe such a thing. Every possiblity of what this sound could be came to mind. Nothing was adding up!
"Hikarri?" Asked the young girl. Hikarri was cut off from her thoughts and turned her attention towards her sister.
"What is it Marliene?"
"Is momma and poppa fighting?"
"I don't know," Hikarri looked down at the baby. She stared deeply at the baby, as if he would give her the answer.
"Here," she handed the baby to Marliene, " Hold Ieki while I go check...Stay here" She emphisized. The children watched as their brave sister walked down the hall toward their parents' room.
During all of this the THUDs continued relentlessly. Hikarri, now inches away from her parents door, pressed her ear against it and closed her eyes. Trying to hear at least something besides the THUDs. There was something...faint...but it was something. It sounded like..whimpering of some sort. While Hikarri was listening ,the children were creeping down the hallway ever so quietly. They were just as curious as Hikarri. Even Ieki was quiet. Then Hikarri realized what the whimpering-like sound was. She quickly swung the door open......
The sight was unbarable. It was worse than what any of them imagined. There was thier father, sitting on their mother's back. The room was quite normal except for the splatters of blood on the floor where their mother's head met. Hikarri was close enough to see teeth and hair embedded into the floor. Their father was repeatively slamming their mother's head to the floor. The children realized that the whimpering came from her. She was still alive after hours of blows to the head and yet, it was as if he didn't notice the children because he carried on with what he was doing.
THUD...
THUD...
THUD...
THUD...
Finally Hikarri snapped back to reality and shouted,"STOP IT!!"....He stopped.... Her mother was no longer whimpering. She laid motionless under her disturbed and twisted husband. Hikarri and the chilren began to cry at the loss of their mother. Feelings of sorrow and regret overwhelmed them. They kept asking themselves questions that no one could answer.
Then, thier father looked up at them. The children stopped crying and just stared at their father. He stared back. There was something new about him. Something ominous about him. He was usually proper and serious...but now he was like an animal; almost savage. He grinned to his children. A sick and twisted grin. Almost as if he was unsatifyed by his deed. He wanted more...More blood from his loved ones.
Hikarri then noticed something on her fathers left eye. It was completely blacked out and it seemed as if thick, black veins were flowing from his eyes. They went in his nose and mouth but they were mainly inside his ear.
Hikarri fell to her knees,"What has happened to you?"
He just sat there staring at her.
Hikarri became angry with him,"ANSWER ME!!" He then screamed at her. It was a horrible scream. Marliene covered the baby's ears and tried to tune out that terrifying scream. Hikarri did not. Hikarri just sat there and listened. She heard something else when he screamed. It was a high pitched sound, almost like nails to a chalk board. But before she could even guess what it was that she heard, he then lunged himself at the children while holding a knife...