Guilty Pleasures 4

Episode 4

Six years later...
Seye was jolted out of sleep by the explosive sound of a dish smashing against the kitchen wall. He heard the shattered pieces of china rain down on the tiled floor. He lay there, staring up into the darkness and holding his breath. The silence was like that moment after you see a streak of lightening and know there will be a boom rattling windows down to your bone. Sure enough, he heard Aunty Candy's tear filled voice wail at Uncle James.

"Go on then," he heard her cry, "leave. You aren't much good to us here anyway. You never were."

"If that's the way you feel woman, then I just might go," he roared back at her.

"Go, go, go," she chanted tearfully. The strain in her voice made the strings in his own heart strain to the point of snapping.

"I will," he threatened. "I won't stay where I'm not appreciated. That's for sure, that's for damn sure."

"Appreciated?" She laughed a shrill, thin laugh. "What's there to appreciate? Your never being able to hold down a job for up to three months? Or your impotence, which one?"

"Ungrateful b!tch! I oughta..."

"Tell me James Richards, are you even a man because the cause of our infertility isn't me as much as it is you!"

Uncle James descended on her in a flash and from his bedroom, Seye could hear his aunt screaming in pain as he slapped and kicked her.

[i]He's going to kill her.[/i] Seye thought in horror and suddenly something within him snapped. [i]He wasn't going to kill her and get away with it, not if he could help it.[/i] A surge of bile rose in his throat as he got out of bed immediately and out of his room.

He entered the kitchen and saw Uncle James kicking Aunty Candy even as she was lying on the floor, defenseless. He had seen Uncle James beat up Aunty Candy before but it was not as ugly as this.

He shoved Uncle James hard from behind almost knocking him over as he hadn't seen him coming. Uncle James was thick in a way that could be called burly with his forearms twice the size of Seye's arm. He also stood over Seye with more than three inches at his six foot five height. Not his match by any standards but Seye didn't care.

Uncle James turned to look at him, "well if it isn't the little wuss. Come to join your aunt on the floor?"

"Shut the hell up!" Seye shouted his eyes blazing in anger.

"You rotten faggot! How dare you raise your voice at me? I will teach you respect this instant."

He lunged for Seye but Seye was faster and calculated quickly. Before he could land the first punch, Seye ducked and head butted him on his chest very violently. Uncle James with his thick body, missed a step and slipped backwards on the tiled floor.

The crack of his skull could be heard loudly in the kitchen as Aunty Candy sat up in horror. His dark red blood gushed out and formed a pool beside his head in sharp contrast with the white tiles.



(To be contd)