DMG808: Hello readers both new and old. This story is a lot more serious than most…
Zane: *Cough cough* All.
DMG808: Fine be that way. This story is a lot more serious than all my previous stories, and also the first that involves no romance.
Syrus: Good. You already made me fall in love with a crazy vampire girl!
DMG808: Aw, you didn't hate it that much, did you?
Syrus: … No…
Zane: Whatever you two. Just get on with the story already.
DMG808: Alright. This is rated M because of child abuse and for safety. I would rather over rate a story than under rate it.
Syrus: That's good. DarkMageGirl808 also doesn't own me and Zane, but she does own our parents and the plot. She also doesn't own the song Who's Crying Now, but that is where she got the name of the story.
DMG808: Also, possible OOCness. Please don't sue me! .
Zane: You're not worth suing.
DMG808: Hey!!! … You're probably right though. Now onto the story!
Who's Crying Now?
Chapter 1
Hello, my name is Zane Truesdale. I just trued three recently, and my mom just had a baby. It's a little boy and his name is Syrus. He's so tiny and fragile looking. I bet we'll be best friend when he gets older. I'll teach him everything.
Mommy and Daddy are yelling again. They've been doing that a lot, but I don't know why. Little Syrus is crying too, making the house really noisy right now. I don't like it when Mommy and Daddy fight. It scares me. I really wish they would stop.
They never used to fight, but when Mommy came home from the hospital, they started to.
Daddy told me to go to my room. He always does when they fight. I'm sitting on my bed, silent tears streaming down my cheeks. Please, please stop!
WCNWCNWCNWCNWCNWCNWCNWCN
I wake up early the next morning, realizing I had cried myself to sleep last night. I get up, still in my clothes.
I open my door and walk out it cautiously, making sure Mommy and Daddy aren't fighting anymore, but the house is silent. Not even Syrus is crying. I sneak into the room that his crib is in, which is also the family room. I thought he'd stay in Mommy and Daddy's room, but they thought he'd better stay in here.
But what I see and hear scares me even more than I was last night. A sudden screaming cry comes from Syrus as Mommy stands above him with one of her hands raised as if she had just hit him, which, from his pained cries, I can tell just happened.
"Mommy?" I ask her quietly, scared that what I think happened really did.
"Don't tell your father, Zane, or I may just do it again." She threatens me, not looking at me or even in my direction. "He deserved it for waking me up so many times last night."
I launch myself across the room, putting myself between the crib and Mommy, pushing her away from him with all my strength.
She falls away not because of the force but because I startled her by doing that. I startled myself too.
"Please don't hurt him, Mommy. He's just a little baby." I beg her, and the way she looks at me at the moment makes me flinch away from her.
"You stupid, idiotic boy! How dare you push me and then tell me what to do!" She screams at me, and I feel smaller under her words than I already am. "I'll show you not to do that again!"
She stands up to her full six foot height, walks over to me, and grabs my upper right arm in a tight death-grip. The squeeze on my arm is so tight that I feel the blood draining out of it.
She drags me around the coffee table and over to the couch, flinging me against it. "Lay down now!" She yells at me, and I quickly scramble onto the couch, laying down with my stomach up, looking at her for approval.
She reaches down her hand toward my face, and then flicks it across my face to slap it. I feel my cheek burning in plain and tears falling down my cheeks as I gasp. Why did she just hit me? I did what she said, didn't I?
"You imbecile! Lay on your stomach!" She screeches at me in a high pitch.
I turn over quickly to be safe from anymore pain. What I didn't know was that I was going to be in more pain in mere seconds after moving to save myself from pain.
I feel the sharp lash of something across my back and yell out in withering pain. What was that? Before I find out what the first one was, a second one comes and then a third and so on. I was frozen in place in pain and fear, screaming and yelling and crying, causing Syrus to also cry harder because of the noise.
About ten minutes later, the pain finally stops being replenished with more and I lay there, cry and stiff, in too much pain to move at all. Mommy is panting heavily, and when I turn to look at her. In her hands is a belt that was previously around her waist and has traces of blood on it. Is that my blood?
"Go to your room now, Zane." She says in a dangerously low voice.
"I-I'm not leaving Syrus." I stammer out, knowing I have to protect my baby brother. He is just baby and he is weak. I won't let Mommy hurt him.
"I said 'go to your room!'" She yells. "Or do you need another lesson?"
"N-no, but I won't let you hurt Syrus." I say, slowly getting up. I walk over to Syrus' crib and stand beside it. I look in and Syrus stops crying and coos softly as he looks up at me.
"Go to your room or get back…" She starts to say when a call comes from the door.
"I'm home!" Daddy calls to us, and Mommy gives me a look that says 'tell and you'll regret it.'
"There you all are. How is my family today?" He says, giving me a hug, which makes me wince in pain. Mommy really hurt me.
"You mean soon to longer be family?" Mommy mutters darkly, and I know they're about to fight again.
"Zane, go to your room." Daddy says to me, and I am about to shake my head no when Mommy says something else for once.
"And take Syrus with you." She says, taking him out of his crib and handing him to me gently. I go to my room quietly. I will protect him. I have to.
DMG808: And done!
Syrus: 0.0. I can't say anything.
Zane: If you hurt Syrus, I'm going to kill you. Seriously.
DMG808: . Please don't hate me, Zane! It's just a story! And plus, you protect baby Syrus.
Syrus: Yay, you do love me!
Zane: Now you've got Syrus on your side…
DMG808: Hee hee! Anyways, please review and know that flames will be ignored! I hope people enjoyed it!