Triplet Trouble
Ch 8
Shrek walked outside carrying sports gear. Fiona wondered what was going on. "You know the way we need to raise Mik's self esteem?" he said to her. "Yes honey. What about that?" she asked him. "Maybe we can do it through sports. He does have some skills." He told her calmly. She frowned at this idea. "I don't think… it'll work. We need to encourage him in a different way but not sports." She explained to him easily. "Aw man. There goes my shot at having some fun." He said as his ears drooped a little.
He then saw the kids come home from school. Likaz and Xan seemed happy but Mik just went into the house and ran into his room. Shrek was dreading this as he came into his son's room. He found Mik hiding under the bed. "Let me guess, another rough day?" he said gently to him as he tried to get Mik to come out. But when he did, he was shocked by what he saw. His son looked really beat up with bruises and what seemed like a black eye. His ears looked a little twisted. "H…How did this happen?" he asked him trying to be calm. "I can't tell you, okay? If I did, they'd keep on doing it." He said scared. This really was tearing his father apart inside as he cleaned up his son's bruises and put a cold cloth on the eye. He scooped him up gently in his arms. "Why're they mean to me? I didn't do anything to them." Mik said gently to him. He sighed at his son's question. "I know and it's not very fair. This is really scaring me. I might have to tell Mommy about this." He said to him. He then walked out of the room with Mik asleep in his arms. "Hey honey. Is something wrong?" she said to him. "Yes. Look at your son." He told her as he showed her the bruises , the twisted ears and the black eye. She was shocked by that. "Is he okay? I can't believe that in his class, there's haters trying to hurt him. It's making me unhappy. Also they must've threatened him about us finding out about this. Let me talk to him." She said as he put Mik on the couch. His eyes opened. Fiona was kneeling beside the couch at his eye level.
"Who hurt you like this? Daddy and I just want to know. We're worried about this. You won't get into trouble." she told him gently. He looked at her. "It was the other kids in class especially Estura. They do it to Likaz and Xan but not as bad as what they do to me. I don't want to go back to a place where people are mean to me because of what I am." he told her calmly. Shrek was worried at his son's words. " So Charming's son is the one leading the attack. Like father, like son I guess. He's hurting Mik because he's like me. I don't know what to do to help him. He seems to have my problem with emotions too. I'd better have a little chat with Charming when I drop them off at school... Besides Fi wouldn't mind if it means helping Mik. But she wouldn't go for it. We all know what that spoiled brat of a prince can do when he's angry especially me.