MONOLOGUE 14- DARREN "Schnozmo" COSMA
DARREN
I've always seen my parents' relationship as rather ironic. It's so ironic, it's hilarious. Neither one of them took full responsibility for themselves, because why would you when you could blame it on the other person? Fuck your own problems, you have your spouses' problems to think about. I can't even call them mom and dad anymore. I usually just refer to the demons as Nora and Linnie.
Right now, I'm sitting in prison for tax fraud and embezzlement, which they themselves are not very violent crimes. However, considering I'm a male fairy, and the ratio is 1 male for every 1000 females, I'm considered pretty dangerous for a guy. Still, could you imagine that I've received more beatings for Nora, my own mother, than any of the female prisoners had since I've been arrested. Yes, I've gotten clocked for picking up a female's ring when they dropped it and didn't belong to me, but she got her ass handed to later that day, telling her the male prisoners were off limits. Glad someone has at least a little bit of morals. What are morals these days anyways. Nora's never heard of it.
Anyways, Nora never fails to crack me up. She had constantly complained about when Linnie up and "abandoned us" when Cosmo turned him into a fly and how she had to fend for herself and us. By the time Linnie left (which wasn't for very long. He was only gone for a few years, which is nothing for fairies), I was probably about 10-11,000 years old, not old enough for a job but still old enough to make money doing some odd jobs if I wasn't in school.
When Linnie left, Nora took that as an excuse to take another job, claiming that we need more money since our low-life father couldn't support us. As if he had a job prior to turning into an insect. But I didn't question it because I wasn't sure what life was like without two parents in the house. I had thought you needed two parents to be well fed or clothed, so I let Nora do what she had to do. But what had happened was, Chelsea, Cosmo, and I would often be left on our own, without a mother or father around to watch over (though I think Linnie's fly body was near the window, kind of watching over us. I don't count that though. What the hell's a fly gonna do for us? It would've been dead within a week, if that). There would be nights where Nora wouldn't come home, and if she did, it was only because she was drunk and the bar had kicked her out. All this was before Linnie came back though, Nora wasn't interested in us enough to hit us. The only interaction we'd get from her was her complaining about Linnie, and how shitty of a father he was. She'd often make shit up about him as well, saying things like, "Oh, he was an alcoholic and a crack addict. Cosmo did us all a favor. He was incredibly abusive and should've went to prison", and while I don't disagree with Linnie being abusive, I don't think he did drugs like fucking Nora did. That's the sad thing. He was sober when he did his shit. At least Nora didn't seem as in control of her actions.
I never did forgive him when he did turn into a fly, because it forced me to temporarily step up as the father of the household in a sense. I took up extra gigs in order to buy grocery money, since Nora's paychecks were blown on alcohol and shit only she would eat. One year, she even stole Christmas and Birthday money we had received from relatives in order to try about some casino that had opened downtown Fairy World. I think that was also where the stealing came into play for me. Nora had also made me give up some of my working money as "rent for the house", because she had no problem with kicking any of us out if we failed to give up our rent. And with Chelsea and Cosmo being as young as they were, I had no choice but to pay for all 3 of us. Of course, this was put to a stop when Linnie came back, but when he stood up to her, she gave him the ass whooping of his life.
It started off small. I was trying to get to school after I took Cosmo and Chelsea to theirs (we walked to school), and decided to stop by a donut shop since I was hungry. I didn't have any money left from my work as I had just paid rent to Nora, but I was so hungry I couldn't help but go inside. I tried taking from the tip jar when the store owner's back was turned, only for Nora to choke me from behind and drag me home, beating me with every inch of my life, talking about how stealing is wrong and how I'll go to hell for doing it. That wasn't the last time I stole. It was just the last time I was caught before going to prison. When I was a kid, the only reason I stole was to provide for myself and two younger siblings until Linnie came home and acted like he was sorry for what he did. At this point, it didn't matter. I still craved the thrill of stealing when Linnie came back to try and take care of us, and I had stolen many things from people at school, stole Linnie's money several times to buy snacks at school, and even pick pocketed my teachers. Cosmo and Chelsea were the only people safe from my stealing.
Ok, so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit when I said Linnie was abusive. Linnie never hit or cursed as us, though to be honest, there were times he had the right to. We were a bunch of little shits after all. But I say he was because it often felt like he was too scared to do much. He called the police, CPS, you name it on Nora, and nothing seemed to work. And when things didn't work out, he'd often just crash and cry, telling us we're the only reason he hadn't killed himself yet. We were the only reason preventing his suicide. What kind of father tells his kids that? Linnie's as emotionally abusive and manipulative as they come. As a matter of fact, I think the only reason he visits me in prison is because he's trying to manipulate me into feeling bad for him. Always apologizing and acting as if he loves me..yeah right. If you really loved us, you would've gotten us out of your situation, bitch.
Man, I can't stand Nora and Linnie. Two of Fairy World's most evil people. I hope they both die and go to hell.