AN: Just to clear things up before we begin, this story takes place in Wisconsin before Sonny moves out to Hollywood. With that said, let's begin.

Chapter One: The Pain Begins Here

Christian's swollen and beaten face is the symbol of the utter hell a certain man puts him through on a daily basis. This man has ruined as many lives as quick as he taken them. This man that he has such a volatile hatred for? His own father, Brian "Bowman" Harris. Needless to say, this guy is very bad news, to say the least. Christian knew that if he was to ever say no, or if he was to ever go against his father in any way, he would meet the same fate as her mother, and that is putting it lightly.

Needless to say, the relationship between Brian and his late wife Angela was not so perfect. Hell, a very crappy marriage would have been better than the marriage that those two had. Now, I no what you are thinking, if the marriage was that terrible, why not leave then? The answer? Leaving is never easy, and the fact that there was a child there would not make things easier. It was when Angela finally got up the nerve to leave him and take Christian with her that on the day that those things were to happen, she was found dead a few miles away. All of the suspicion fell on Bowman, but there was no proof and no evidence to suggest that he was involved, but with the fact that he was a major player in crime and intimidation in the town where they lived for their whole lives, no need to say that wasn't a surprise.

Bowman has the power and the ability to make people do what ever that he wants. That is one of the reasons that Christian could never leave if he wanted to. He was just as liable for some of the things that Bowman did. He felt like a criminal, but he had to do those things to prevent his own self from being murdered. If he would be brought to judgement, a higher power will understand, right? Right?

Christian sighed, and fell on his bed. He wanted to leave his father, he really wanted to, but he knew that if he did, his father would do everything in his power to bring him back, and when he did, his father would beat him to within an inch of his life. He can do that, and has done it before. He was a prisoner in his own home. As he laid there, he flashed back to a day that he would haunt him as will he remember for the rest of his life.

Bowman broke into a house, and began robbing the place. He brought Christian along so he could crack a safe. Bowman saw that Christian had a unique talent for that. While Christian was busy with the safe, he heard a commotion in the front of the house. Christian ran to see what was all of the commotion was about, and he saw a very horrific sight. Christian was witness to his own father beating a man to death. Christian could not get over the fact that he was watching as his father had a tied up man, and was beating him with a bat. Even though the man was helpless, Bowman saw that it was only right (in his mind at least) to beat him with a bat. When Bowman saw that he was still alive, he pulled out a gun, and hand the firearm to Christian.

"Here. Finish him." Bowman commanded of Christian. Christian looked at the gun, and back at his father.

"Do it!" Bowman screamed at Christian. Christian pointed the gun at the helpless and unconscious man, but the good in him prevented him from pulling the trigger. Bowman growled, and snatched the gun away from him. In one quick and swift motion, he slapped Christian with the gun. Christian fell to the ground, and felt the blood filling his mouth.

"You are so damn useless!" Bowman screamed at him as he stood over him. Bowman turned back to the man that was tied up on the floor, and pointed the gun right at him. Christian turned away, as he knew exactly what was coming. He covered his ears the best way that he could, but he very clearly heard the gunshot that followed. Christian uncovered his ears, just as Bowman grabbed him by the collar and lifted him on her feet.

"Let's go, you piece of crap." Bowman yelled at Christian as the two of them left the home the same way that they entered. It was not the fact that his father had forced him to break into a home that was going to stay with him for the rest of his life, but is was the fact that Christian had witnessed a man that helped create him, a man that he called his own father, murder someone right in front of him after he couldn't do it.

Christian's life was worse than living in a total hell, and he knew that it wasn't going to get better any time soon.

Christian laid on his bed, and heard his father come into the home. Bowman stayed away from him, and that made Christian feel good, for the moment at least, the more time that they stayed away from each other, the better. To put it plain and simple, Christian hated his own father and the horrible things that he made him do. The fact that Bowman forced Christian to do these crimes with him, made the young man sick to his stomach. He couldn't do anything about it, and he is faced with that horrible fact. Little did he know that his bad luck was going to get a little ray of sunshine...

AN: Next chapter, after having a little run in with his father early in the morning before school, Christian meets a cute brunette girl named Sonny Munroe. What will happen? Read and find out!