Hey guys! Whoa, lot's of reviews on the last chapter...thank you guys so much! Keep them up! I hope I'm not freaking you guys out too much with this "Kyle" character...but, like I warned you guys, "Odd Things will occur!" Anyways, please enjoy the fifth chapter of "Closer To The Edge"...
A Special Thanks To My Beta Reader-SomeoneNamedLiz
CLOSER TO THE EDGE-CHAPTER 5
The rules for parents are but three... love, limit, and let them be
ELI'S PERSPECTIVE
"Adam you have to give me these papers by sunset man, this wait is ridiculous," I told my partner over the phone as I listened to his excuse and then sighed when I realized that he had already faxed me over the documents for the case.
"Thanks man, sorry about the confusion," I told him as he laughed on the other line and said, "Man, just go home, sleep with your wife and kiss your kid goodnight."
My eyebrows tightened and I mumbled, "Easier said than done."
"What was tha-?" I hung up before I would have to explain my doubts of living a 'normal' life with my wife and son.
For the next two hours, I stared at the papers before me that had nearly driven my eyes cross eyed because the print was smaller than a fucking ant that you just squished with your big ass shoe.
Since everyone had left the office by now, I was sitting alone with just the tick of the clock above me as noise.
The hairs on my body stood up when I heard a light tapping on my door and my eyebrows tightened in confusion when I saw who it was. At first, I thought my eyes had deceived me, but, it was him, "Jake, what are you doing here, buddy?"
"Sir, I don't mean to disturb you at your work, but...I'm concerned, about Kyle," he told me as I waved him in while mumbling, "Aren't we all."
I've never been fond of Kyle's friends, but, Jake seemed like a trustworthy kid. As he took a seat, for the first time today I dropped all my papers and asked, "So, what's up?"
He interlocked his hands and said, "Sir, I don't know if you know this but Kyle has been acting very strange lately."
"Number one, do me a favor and stop calling me 'sir' it makes me feel like I'm a hundred years old. Number two, explain yourself," I ordered as I gave him my full attention.
Jake's eyes roamed and he said, "I've been hanging out with Kyle all day and he keeps on telling me how much he hates his mom, Clare. He keeps telling me on how much he wants to kill her and...Eli, I think he might do it."
I scoffed and said, "Kyle might be a rebellious teenager but I don't think he would actually kill Clare."
"Sir, Eli, whatever you want me to call you, I think he will do anything he can in order to just have it you and him because he really doesn't like Clare. Right now, it doesn't even seem like he even has a heart," he told me as I glared at his eyes intently.
I sighed, leaning my elbows on my desk and said, "Tell me what you know, Jake."
"H-he made me promise not to tell you," Jake said with a stutter in his statement which meant whatever Kyle told him was serious.
My chest felt as if it was going slowly numb as I whispered, "Please, for the sake of my wife's life."
Jake nodded and said, "He told me that he held Clare at knife point yesterday. After him and Katie had sex, you know, the girl you drove home?" I nodded and rubbed my temples together frustratingly while mumbling, "Go on."
"Then, he said that whenever he sees Clare something inside his body completely snaps and he has the urge to physically hurt her," Jake told me as I rolled my eyes while slumping down in my work chair.
"Jake, I'm really glad you told me this...but, I just can't believe you right now," I told him while getting up and opening my office door for him.
He got up and asked, "You don't believe me?"
"I believe you Jake, I just choose not to because believe it or not, I have more important things to deal with in my life than worrying that my son is going to murder my wife. It doesn't sound too believable now does it?" I asked him and his Adams apple bobbed uncomfortably.
"You know what, when you wake up one morning with your precious wife in a pool of blood don't come crying to me," Jake said as he swiftly exited my office which resulted in a powerful slam of my door.
I stood by my door for about a half hour, wondering and processing what Jake had told me.
Could it be true?
No.
CLARE'S PERSPECTIVE
I switched through the channels, my eye lids growing heavy as I noticed it was almost midnight. I know today is Monday and on Monday's Eli always stays extra late to work on one of his cases.
But, that is translated to 'I stay up in fear of my son until Eli gets home'.
My heart skipped almost three beats when I heard the steps in my house creak loudly, which caused my body to shoot up from the couch as I walked over to the staircase to see Kyle throwing his coat on.
I shut the T.V. off and asked, "K-Kyle, honey, where are you going?"'
He slipped his shoes on and said, "I've got a girl waiting on me ma, wouldn't want to pass up the opportunity and this way you and dad could have alone time."
"It's nice of you to think of us but, Kyle, I think it'd be better if you just stay home. You have a long day tomorrow with football practice early in the morning and then that big math test, I think you should just go back to sleep," I told him while smiling weakly.
He placed a hand on my shoulder and said, "Thanks ma, but uh, no thanks."
I clenched my eyes tightly and stepped in front of the door with all of the strength I could to cut him off and said, "Your father wouldn't want you out late at night...I think you should stay before he grounds you, please Kyle."
He scoffed, and for a moment, my heart was racing a mile a minute due to the fear building up inside of me.
"Mom, I'm going out. Now, please, get the fuck out of my way," he said slowly through gritted teeth as he was eye to eye with me.
I gulped and said, "I don't think your da-."
A gasp, a sharp and painful gasp followed by a fall to the ground followed my useless attempt to keep Kyle in his house, where he belonged on a school night.
"Y-you hit me," I stuttered while wiping the blood on the corner of my lip that strolled down my jaw. My hands were shaking from the impact of his rough hand slapping across my face.
"You're lucky you get off with a hit. Next time, if you get in my way Clarabelle, it'll be a kill," he whispered in my ear as I shuddered from his cool breath hitting my cheek.
I couldn't move my weak body or my weak mouth as Kyle scoffed while opening the door and saying, "Guess dad's not getting a blowjob tonight."
My body still remaining motionless, the time standing still as the replay of my own son hitting me scarred my memory for life...
2 HOURS LATER...
KYLE'S PERSPECTIVE
"I have to go home baby, but, I'll be back tomorrow night..." I pecked her on the cheek and then continued smugly, "Well, tonight."
Katie giggled and for the first time, her eyes were gleaming in a way that made the butterfly's in my stomach explode due to the uncontrollable pleasure exploding from my body.
"I love you, Kyle," she said while leaning her naked breasts against my bare chest which made her heart race comfortably.
I smiled and said, "Yeah, love you too...I guess."
"What is that supposed to mean?" She asked, sitting up as I crawled off of her still trembling body.
I picked up my clothes, throwing my shirt over my head as I said, "Well, I mean, we are just in high school...we don't know what love is yet."
Katie scoffed and said, "Yeah but you know where to shove your fucking cock."
"Yes ma'am," I told her while throwing her a spare condom that I always leave with her, in order to reassure her negative thoughts of me leaving her. I would never leave her because whenever I come over, her legs are open and my cock is hard.
That's what makes Katie so unique...she's so willing.
"You're such a fucking asshole," she hissed as I snuck out of her window, beginning to walk down her ladder while saying obnoxiously, "Love you too!"
The lonely hour walk home was unbelievably warm because it was only September and believe it or not, I feel like I am in a fucking pizza oven sometimes...or, in a bonfire.
When I approached my house, I hesitantly walked inside because I didn't expect to see the person that I did, standing with his arms crossed tightly and the most pissed off expression on his face that I've ever seen.
My dad.
END OF CHAPTER 5
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