Chapter 6 - David

Father was barely ever home at this point. I felt helpless because I knew when father was home the beatings weren't as bad. Mother starved me for 10 days straight, I would have done anything for food. Mother had a new game to play with me, which was putting ammonia in a bucket and closing me in the room with it to where i couldn't breathe. She also played another game where she would run the water as cold as it would get in the bathtub and make me sit in it for hours. On day mother told me that it was over and that she was sorry, that if he could be a good boy she would try to be a good mother. The next day a lady came to the house and asked mother a bunch of questions. Finally she said she wanted to talk to me too, she asked me if I was happy and I said yes, then she asked me if mother ever beat me, I looked at mother and didn't know what to say. So I told her that only when I was a bad bo mother punished me. I thought I said the right thing but I guess I didn't I mad mother mad and I knew I was going to pay for it.