Lulabell sat with the clear glass of vodka in her hand. She sat across from Sicilly who stared at her intently.
"Well what do you want to know?" She asked.
"I don't know! Sicilly explained. "Just something, anything about you guys! I just feel really in the dark about your lives, y'know? If I'm gonna be in your guys' family like you want me to be I should know about you, right?"
"Hasn't Dar told you everything you've wanted to know?" Lulu replied haughtily.
"Not really. He keeps saying 'I'll tell you later, I'll tell you later.' But he doesn't."
"Well then I guess it's story time." Lulabell took another sip of her drink. "Mama was pretty nice to Dar and I, but Daddy..."
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"Shh, Darwin. Mama'll be all right," Lulabell spoke through a swollen cheek.
"Daddy's gonna kill Mama!" He yelled in his whisper.
"Naw, naw he won't." Lulabell clutched her little brother's head into her chest. She ignored his sobs and his mumbling 'Daddy's gonna kill us! Daddy's gonna kill Mama!'
Suddenly the sheets were ripped away from the siblings as their Father ripped the sheets away, exposing them to the cold air. Darwin grabbed fistfuls of Lulabell's nightgown and sobbed harder. Their father grabbed them by the collars and pulled them out of bed. "Lulu, Darwin, who woul' ya' rather stay with? Mommy, or Daddy?" The smell of liquor was strong in his breath. Darwin was crying to hard to get a decent answer out of him. Lulabell looked her father in the eye.
"Ma-"
"WHAT?"
"Mama, I wanna go with Mama!" Lulu watched out of the corner of her eye as her mother sighed with relief.
"Fine! You'll grow up to be jus' like 'er! A whore! Ya gonna be a filthy, fuckin' whore!" He threw Lulabell to the floor, and turned to Darwin, which screamed and flailed. "What about you!? His father yelled in the young boys face. "Are ya gonna stay with your whore of a mother! Your fuckin' slut sister?!"
"Lulu! Lulu!" He yelled. His arms reached out for his sister, who stayed quietly sobbing on the floor.
"Fine then! If this family just wants to leave, ya'll can get the fuck out!" He dropped Darwin to the floor. Their mother rushed, and helped up Lulabell, and gripped her hand tightly. She picked Darwin up off the floor and ran towards the door. As she was running, bottled flew from behind them, all the way until they were safely in the car. And they were out of there. Forever.