Chapter three

By this time i am very afraid of mom. The only way that i can avoid her is to stay around dad, but on the days that he has to work i have no escape from her and her beatings. Stan is starting to notice how mom is acting towards me i can tell. Mom has came up with a new type of beating me now she takes me into her and dad's bedroom and smashes my face into their mirror and she keeps on telling me that i deserve it because i am a " bad boy". She told me today when i came home from school that my 1st grade teacher had called her this afternoon and told her that i need to be held back one more year instead of moving onto the 2nd grade, she was so angry with me. I feel like im a failure even though i am one of the best students in my class. She said that i have embarrassed this family. Today her beating was very different than the others and it was so afraid, as soon as i got in the door this afternoon she grabbed me by my arm and led me to the stove in the kitchen she told me how she had read a article in a magazine about a mother that made her child lay on a stove and she wanted to try that on me. i knew i had to find some way to escape her after she said that, 1st she grabbed my hand and held it over the flame until i could feel and smell my flesh burning. i wanted to scream and cry and beg her to let me go but she did not give up, next she told me that she wanted me to lay on the stove.... i froze. finally i was saved when stan came home, i had wasted enough time that i didn't have to lay on the stove, i grabbed my cloths and ran to the garage, i won this time.