Nobody's Listening
Act 2: Chapter 3: C'est la Vie
By KirariSoldier
Suki sat upon the floor, holding her child, Etsuko, by the hands. "What did you do today, sweetie?" She asked her child in a sweet vocie. Etsuko giggled happily at her mothers words. "I learned to use the ink and brush!" Etsuko cooed happily. "Etsuko, what a big girl!" She said happily as she hugged her child. Etsuko who was now 7 years old. "You are such, a big girl! Mommy loves you!" Suki said as she placed a kiss on her child's cheek. As suki was holding her child, getting ready to get up, Sokka entered the room, sake bottle in hand, looking as drunk as he had months ago. "Sokka!" Suki said happily as she walked over to him, only to stop half-way when she caught sight of the sake bottle in his hand.
"Hey... (hic) Suki... (hic)...and the little rugrat..." He said as he slammed his fist done on the table. "How many times have I told you,
she needs to stay with her nanny!" He said, drunken anger in his vocie. "Sokka! I barely see her as it is! Don't tell me she has to stay with that horrid woman all the time!" And at the instant, Suki felt her nose shatter, blood flow down her face. Suddenly Etsuko was on the floor, screaming, at her mother, who was unconcious on the ground, cool blood pooling around her face. "Take that, and don't you ever (hic) raise your vocie to me again.
Sokka then realized what he had done. He had taken out his own wife, beloved. Nothing but panick and remorse came to him as he quickly kneeled by her side. "SUKI! SUKI!" He yelled in anguish over and over. Nothing would wake her, not even the calls of her own child. "Mommy!
MOMMY! What did you do to mommy!" Etsuko screamed at the top of her little high-pitched lungs. "DAD! What happened to mommy! Why did you hurt her!" Etsuko screamed even louder. Sokka, now growing angry with his child, slapped her. "Shut your mouth!" He said as Etsuko was on the floor, crying so loud that the nanny came running into the room. "Etsuko! What's the ma--" Then she was cut short as she saw the current scene.
Sokka standing over Suki, who was currently in a state of comastose, and Etsuko, who was on the floor, kicking and screaming. "Hanae! Dad hurt mommy!" Etsuko screamed as she got up and ran over to her nanny. "You hurt the mistress?" Hanae, an aged woman with many wrinkles on her face, looked in shock at the whole threashold.
TO BE CONTINUED...