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2. TIME IS COUNTED
I turn my head the other way, not being able to look at this anymore. This is the most violent I've seen my dad in ages, and it scares me more then usual. I run upstairs and dive into my room, and slam the door behind me. I hide under the covers and cry myself to sleep.
I wake up to my father's gentle shakes. When I open my eyes, he sits on the edge of my bed. I can see the sunlight pouring in from the window; it must be morning. My eyes focus back on Marcus, whom I can see is wearing his 'daddy' mask. I get up groggily and sit my back to the wall. His face has no trace of anger and seems relaxed. I tense, knowing how my father's mind works. This is just the calm of a storm; he will soon blow up again.
We sit like this for a few more minutes, just eyeing each other until he calmly says, "Your mother was not next to me when I woke up. She has disappeared." He looks at me, and his smile fades. The monster in on his way back, I think. He stares at me, and I hold his gaze until I can't take it anymore and look down at the covers.
"You have some information you would like to share." He does not say this as a question, more as an order. And I find myself obeying. In a small quick voice I begin, "Mother came to me last night and…" She had told me to stay strong against my father, yet I won't share that, "…and she told me she would leave and find her way to the Merciless Mart and merge with the Candor." I don't dare look up again. I don't want to see his reaction. All of a sudden he gets up, and storms out of my room, leaving the door wide open.
It's a Saturday, and in Abnegation adults are not required to work, nor are children across all factions obliged to go to school. Today was a day to relax; yet I have never felt relaxed throughout my short life. Never. I don't think I ever will, especially with my mother no longer there to attempt in protecting me. If Marcus find's her, I don't want to even think about what he will do to her. A few minutes after my father and I's discussion, I hear a car engine. I briskly stand up and look out the little window and see the last glimpse of my father's grey abnegation car turn at the curve of our street.
He must be heading for the Merciless Mart, Candor headquarters, and he will claim he is doing it for his job, being part of the council in the city. He will wear his kind Abnegation mask he can lie so easily in. Something tells me that is not where my mother is, but I do not explore the thought. She wouldn't have lied to me anyway. I get downstairs and eat plain oatmeal for breakfast and drink a glass of milk before taking a shower. I take a cold shower, saving the warm water for other people like you should in Abnegation. I feel this life contains me, and I want to be free.
I stay at home and do my homework when my father's car slows to a stop in our driveway. I watch him from the shaft of light; my bedroom window, as he takes his keys out and opens the front door. I then plop down back in my chair and hear him violently slam the door shut. Instantly I know he is in a bad mood, and anything I will do will make it worse and will make him angry enough to hit me. I get up from my desk to close my bedroom door when I hear his rapid footsteps up the staircase and he bursts into my room. The look on his face is indescribable. I have never seen lines of worry on his forehead, or creases in his cheeks as he grimaces; he is for once genuinely worried.
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