DMG808: I live!

Zane: Whatever.

Syrus: Aw, Zane, we all know you were worried about DMG808. Can't the two of you just be friends already?

Zane: Don't even go there, Syrus.

DMG808: I don't think this will be possible until this story is over…

Zane: DMG808… What are you planning now?

DMG808: 0.0 For once it's not something bad, I promise!

Syrus: Um, let's start the chapter, okay?

Chapter 8

Mommy is taking a nap on the couch. She was supposed to be watching me while Daddy is at work, but it's okay. She's been kind of grumpy lately and Daddy said it was because she was tired because of the baby. I hope the baby comes soon. Daddy said the baby could come any day now.

I walk over to her, looking at her bulging stomach. Maybe I can help push the baby out. Daddy and Mommy said I wasn't supposed to, but Mommy's asleep and Daddy's at work.

So I push on her stomach, trying to help the baby make it's way into the world. I wonder how he'll get out though? I shrug and continue my work.

"Zane?" I hear Daddy call, and then I hear him gasp. "Zane!"

He grabs my shoulders and pulls me away, looking angrier than I had ever seen him. "Zane, come with me. If you're not going to listen to what your Mommy and I tell you, I'm going to have to teach you… another way." He says as he guides me to my bedroom. I don't get it. I was only trying to help!

When we get there, he sits down on my bed and pulls me over his knees onto my stomach with my feet hanging over one side of them and my head facing toward the floor. Then I feel a hand smack my backside. It doesn't hurt as much as something else I can't remember, but I feel tears spring from my eyes as he spanks me one, two, tree, four more times. Then it's over, just like that.

He lifts me up off of his knees and faces me toward him, so he can look at my face. "I'm sorry, Zane." He starts. "It's just, you can't do that. If you push on your Mommy's stomach, you could hurt the baby. You don't want to hurt the baby, do you?"

"N-no, I was just trying to help. You said you and Mommy want the baby to come out soon." I reply to him with tears still on my cheeks. "I didn't know it would hurt the baby… I'm sorry, Daddy."

Then Daddy smiles at me and pulls me into a tight hug. "No, I should be saying I'm sorry to you. I thought your Mommy and I had explained that to you, but I guess we forgot. I promise you, son, I'll never spank you ever again. A parent should never hit their child and I realize that now."

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I wake up with tears in my eyes at the memory that had come to me in a dream. 'A parent should never hit a child' he had said. I remember that day, if only vaguely. I realize the terrible mistake I had made. I left Syrus at home alone with that bitch that dares to call herself our mother.

I find my cell phone that I had bought with the money I had stolen, I mean 'borrowed', from my mother before leaving. I guess a part of me knew I would want to call Syrus at some point.

I dial my home phone number, praying Syrus will answer. It continues to ring and ring and ring until…

"You have reached the Truesdale residence. We can not come to the phone right now, but if you leave your name and number we will get back to you as soon as possible." My mother's voice says simply and then I hear a little beep.

"Syrus, it's me, Zane if you get this…" I start, but then I get interrupted.

"Hello?" Syrus' little voice answers and a part of me is relieved with another part of me is scared.

"Syrus, I'm so sorry! I should never have left you, I should have stayed, I'm sorry. I should have a least told you, but I was being stubborn, but that's no excuse, but I did it anyways and I never should have and I'm sorry. So very sorry."

"Zane? It's okay, you know? You had to go, I get that. I don't get why you didn't tell me, but it's okay. I'm okay." Syrus assures me calmly, soothing the nerves that had built to the point of breaking.

"Oh, Syrus. Syrus." I say and I did something I never did in front of him ever, unless I was being whipped. I cried, crying my heart out. The tears and sobs overtook me, streaming down my face in noisy streams of all the pain and agony I have been feeling my entire life. The pain of losing my father, the pain of the daily abuse, the pain of knowing Syrus got hurt because I wasn't there to protect him, the pain of not being able to protect him anymore, the pain of the fear that was always inside me. I am truly a scared little kid deep in my heart.

"Sh, Zane, it's okay. Everything is alright, I promise. Mom said she felt bad that you left me in the blue, so she'll leave me alone for a little while." Syrus coos softly, trying to make me feel better.

"Syrus, just remember this. Dad told me this a long time ago after he had spanked me for the first and last time. A parent should never hit their child." I told him, hoping he would get what I mean.

Instead he seemed to miss the point completely. "Dad spanked you?! I thought you said that Daddy was a good person."

I sweatdropped at how off topic he was, but I smiled to myself. I really do love that nutty little kid. "He was, Sy, he really was. Don't hold it against him. He was just trying to teach me something and went about it the wrong way." I really wish it could be the same way with our mother. "I love you, Sy, but I have to go now. I'll try and call you soon."

"Okay, big brother. I love you too. But can I call you? I don't want you to call and have Mom pick up." Syrus says, so I give him my number and we say goodbye again. I really hope he'll be okay.

Zane: That was better. Now just get Syrus the hell out of there!

DMG808: Zaane, you know I can't just do that! There's a really important part coming up soon and you had to be on good terms with him!

Syrus: Does important mean painful?

DMG808: …Maybe…

Zane: You hurt him again, you die. It's that simple.

DMG808: But but but!

Zane: No buts! But I did like the part with my Dad…

DMG808: 0.0 It's the apocalypse! Zane liked something I wrote in this story! Everybody run!

Zane: *rolls eyes* Drama queen.

Syrus: Please review! Hopefully the next part isn't too bad…