"It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!" -Ann Radcliffe
"Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge, I'm trying not to lose my head" Jay sang along as he was listening to "The Message" he always did this whenever his parents would argue, which
they did. A LOT. It tore him up on the inside, I mean he's 13 years old, and flunking school all because of his parents constant bickering, he'd just sit in his room, put on his music, grind his
teeth and tear up a little bit. His father, James Ray Canidae SR, was a chain smoking alcoholic who had a dishonorable discharge from the Cornarian Army for cowardice, his mother Anna
Lee Canidae [nee Sharidan] was the breadwinner of the household, she worked as a bank teller. Now Jay always used to isolate himself from others, even his best friend Fox, at times the
two wouldn't talk but they stayed friends through thick and thin. One day Jay came home from school and he came home to the usual, aruging; "WHY DON'T YOU GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS
AND WORK FOR A LIVING?!" screamed his mom, "SHUT UP BITCH!" exclaimed his father. Jay's mother looked over and saw him enter, "Hey sweetheart, dinner's in the fridge OK?" asked his
mother who carried a bin of clean laundry up to the master bedroom, "Hey son" said his dad, but Jay just shook his head and proceeded into the kitchen, he opened the fridge and found a
nice cut of steak with a side of mac and cheese and a note that read; "For Jay, hands off you drunk bastard!" Jay chuckled at the note, and heated up the food. After the microwave dinged
indicating the food was done, he took out his food, grabbed a knife and fork out of the drawer and then sat down at the breakfast nook and began to eat. Just then his dad happened to
walk in with a key, it was the key to his liquor cabinet, "You better not of been drinking any of this" said Jay's dad as he unlocked the liqour cabinet and pulled out a bottle of Scotch, "Why
would I drink that? So I could fuck my life up, like you did yours?" Jay angrily replied, "Ungrateful, disrespectful little shit" said Jay's dad as he locked the cabinet and walked out of the
kitchen with the bottle of Scotch in hand, "Fat fuck of an alcoholic, waste of sperm son of a bitch!" Jay whispered to himself, even though he didn't have to whisper as his dad never hit him
nor his mother. Jay finished his dinner and put his dish in the sink, then grabbed his bookbag and carried it upstairs to his room so he could do his homework. When he got upstairs he
turned on his radio and started to play the song "The Message" and he began to do his homework, "I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise..." Jay sang along with the track when all
of a sudden his dad burst into the room drunk as hell, "Ach! You're listening to that bullshit rap music?!" slurred Jay's dad, "Dad, get the fuck out of my room!" exclaimed Jay but his dad
didn't listen, his dad did the unthinkable, he took Jay's cassette and burnt it with a cigarette lighter. Jay got pissed off, he threw down his books, got up and punched his dad square in the
eye, now mind you Jay was stronger and in better shape than his father, and his father hit the ground with a loud *THUD* to which his mother ran to his room and saw her husband lay
on the floor holding his eye, his mother was in shock and awe.
"The Message" is property of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, all credit for it goes to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Hope you R&R also!