Disclaimer: see first chapter
MOM AND DAD USED TO BE IN LOVE
Way back in the beginning anyhow.
I know because I can see it in their eyes
when I watched the old home videos
of when I was a baby.
They were really in love,
like people in the movies.
But now they have
these hideouse battles all the time.
They scream thier guts out
at each other about things like
how they should be raising me
or about money or the in-laws
or even just what movie to go see.
Thier shrieking whips around inside me
like a tornado.
And no fingers crammed in my ears,
no pillows held over my head,
can block it out.
It makes me want to throw on my coat
and rush over to Sora's
or to Mimi's
But I can't bring myself
to set foot outside.
What would I do if
I ran into the neighbors?
A neighbor who's heard
every
single
foul-mouthed word?