It was one in the morning, and Cal was in his bed asleep, when he was awakened by loud screaming and banging and pounding from outside of his room. Cal sat up in bed quickly and gasped loudly. The screaming voices were coming from his mother and father. They were having yet another argument, only this one sounded more severe and violent. Cal jumped up out of bed and ran over to the door of his room and listened closely.

"You stupid bitch! I bet you're sleeping with him aren't you!" Nathan yelled with anger.

"I'm not sleeping with ANYONE Nathan, you're crazy!" Laura yelled loudly. "Although sleeping with someone else would be a step up from you! You're controlling, you're teaching and brainwashing Cal to hate, to be mean, to be snobbish and I'm sick of it Nathan! I'm leaving you in the morning and taking Cal with me!"

Nathan gasped loudly with anger and Cal heard a loud thump on the floor that made him jump. He then heard loud gagging. Cal put his ear as close as he could to the door but could only hear his father saying some angry curse words in a low voice, but then as he tried even harder to listen, he heard his mother gagging loudly. It was his mother that was gagging. Cal gasped and quickly stood up and opened the door to his room and ran out to the living room, where he heard the noises coming from. Cal stopped when he saw what he saw in front of him. His mother, Laura was lying on the living floor—dead—apparently she had been strangled to death and Nathan was pacing back and forth in the living room, with a troubled but angry expression. Tears clouded Cal's eyes. Cal gasped loudly.

"Mommy!" Cal cried as he ran over to Laura and tried his best to scoop her up in his arms.

Cal broke into severe tears while he held her in his small arms.

"Mommy! What happened to mommy! You killed her!" Cal yelled through tears.

Nathan looked at Cal with anger and grabbed Cal by his arm roughly and yanked him up to his feet, and Cal winced loudly through tears.

"I TOLD you not to call her that!" Nathan yelled as he dragged Cal by the arm, out of the room, back to his (Cal's) bedroom.

Nathan walked into Cal's bedroom and threw Cal across the floor of the room.

"Now you STAY there until I come back in here later!" Nathan yelled. " And don't come out again!"

As Nathan slammed the door shut, Cal ran to the door and tried to open it, but heard that Nathan had locked the door from the outside, so Cal couldn't get out. Cal began pounding on the door through tears.

"No! Let me out to be with mommy!" Cal yelled through severe tears. "Mommy! Mommy! Momm—"

Cal stopped and sat down on the floor quickly and broke into severe tears. He cried so hard that he felt his head hurting. He couldn't believe it, his mommy was dead. His father had killed her. He no longer had a mommy.

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It was early around six that morning when Nathan unlocked Cal's bedroom door and walked back in, Nathan saw Cal sitting on the floor by his bed, staring out the big, bay window in front of him. Cal's eyes were red and puffy from crying all night over his dead mother, Cal was sitting there absolutely still. Nathan sat down beside Cal on the floor and turned Cal to face him, but Cal stared down at the floor without blinking, with a blank, depressed look.

"Cal, your mother wanted to leave me and take you with her." Nathan began. "I couldn't let that happen, I'm sorry, it was an accident, son, but you don't understand. Women HAVE to be controlled and when they misbehave, its up to US men to correct them. That's what I did. You have to understand, when you get older and have a woman of your own to love, you MUST treat her the same way. You must control her and correct her when she gets out of line—no matter what the cost of correcting her is. Do you understand?"

Cal nodded slowly after a few seconds of just sitting there, staring there—blankly. Nathan scoffed and briefly smiled and kissed Cal on the head and stood up.

"Don't worry, its been all taken care of and hidden away." Nathan said, meaning of Laura's body.

Nathan walked out the room, closing the door behind him, as tears streamed from Cal's child-sized eyes, Nathan left the room leaving Cal's child-like mind to float around with what he (Nathan) had just told him about his mother and women. Nathan had planted the seeds, the evil seeds about women and about life in Cal's mind and it was the beginning of a process of brainwashing for Caledon Hockley, by his father, Nathan, to eventually turn Caledon into the monstrous, abusive, snobbish, controlling man he'd become years later…

TO BE CONTINUED…..