All the hurt and dysfunction is where Max is living in and his mother is the cause for it because she considers him a curse. You'll see...
Chapter 8: A Curse in My Life
A year has gone by and Max is still tormented by his mother and he had been molested by her since that year and his life has been filled with so much misery inside of him, but he's trying so hard to forget all about it and let it go away...but whenever his mom's in her beck and call, it's impossible to do so and she treats him like he's her little toy.
Max felt like he was not safe in his own home and every now and then, he walks off on his own to try to get away from all of this and sometimes, he doesn't care where it is just as long as he does deal with his own mother being such a monster and just hides from the chaos in his early life.
He climbs up to the trees and he looks up at the sky and just wishes that he could fly away from everything and never come back...only in his imagination that he can go anywhere he wants to go and be free. And if he can run away from home, he would and just find another home to live in, but with being taken advantaged of by his own mother still in his mind, he's not sure if any grown up will love him at all.
'Who would ever want you? A misshapen, homely cub like you?'
'The world will take full advantage of you, little Maximus.'
'You're mine! Mine and no one else's!'
'You couldn't get yourself out of trouble for one day!'
'I knew that having you as my child would be a nightmare, along with all your other brothers and sisters!'
'Nobody loves you! And no one will ever love you at all!'
'You look like your ugly and disgusting excuse of a father! I can see it right here!'
Those comments that his mother spat at him made him feel miserable and it made him think that all of what she said was right and maybe he doesn't deserve to be loved at all and it completely stuck with him since his father got hauled off to jail. What's worse than that is the beat that not only she uses him, but she beats him up constantly with all the scars and bruises all over him, including the scars on parts of his eyes.
Max lets out a sad sigh as he looks up at the sky and he said, "I wish I wouldn't have to deal with this. Why would my mother treat me like this? What did I even do to her?"
"MAXIMUS!"
Max hated that shrill that came out of nowhere and he knew that it was his mother at her most angriest and as he slowly looks down, he sees her storming by in a mad rage and she said, "Get your fat butt down here right now!"
Max climbed down on the tree and by the time he made it, she yanked him by the tail and said to him, "You give me so much trouble right now...how many times have I told you to stay where you are?!"
"A million." Max replied.
She felt like she took that response as offensive and just slapped him in the face and said, "Don't smart mouth me, kid! You no good little (bleep)."
Max pretended that he didn't really hear that because he knows that he'll never repeat what she said to him and as soon as they got home, she throws Max onto the floor and when the door slammed, she angrily glares at him and kicks him in the face, shin and groin many times and she said, "Why do you always disrespect me?!"
"I...I don't." Max replied, calmly.
"Liar! You're even worse than your father!" she screamed.
Max wasn't sure what she was gonna do to him this time, but he knows for a fact that this wasn't gonna be good...so he silently crept upstairs to hide in his room, but his mother knows his motives to escape her quickly and she said, "Where do you think you're going?"
"To my room." Max replied.
She lets out an evil smirk and she replied, "Don't even try to escape me. I figured it would be the only place that you can hide from."
She then turns to him and unsheathes her claws to claw him up out of hatred and Max immediately runs off and she chases after him and as she gained on him, she successfully grabs him by the tail, causing him to fall down and she dragged him down towards her room, while Max is screaming and pleading her to let go.
She ignored his cries and takes him down to his room and then slams the door behind him and she said to him, "You are a curse in my life and I wish you were never born."
Max got severely beaten, bruised and slammed down by her multiple times and Max tried to leave, but she wouldn't let him do so and she attempted to throw Max out of the window and she said, "Try to escape from me, Maximus! I dare you! You make me so sick every year that I can't even put it in words!"
"Let me go!" Max cried.
"Shut up!" she shouted.
She felt like she was gonna reach her limit with the five year old white tiger cub and wanted to strangle him to death, but she had other ideas.
"This is it...I am going to get rid of you." she said, in a cold tone.
Max's mother is the one that's disrespectful and now what's she gonna do with him?
