Can We Dim the Sun and Wonder Where We've Been?
"We cant tell him just like that..." My ma said quietly to my pa in the kitchen.
"Well why not? Hes 12 years old he can handle it." Pa replied sighing.
"He just lost his cousin, he cant take it right now!"
"You do NOT stand up against me Janise!" I heard skin roughly smack skin.
"Darren I know its against our ways, but he is our son! We cant hurt him like that..."
"Its not going to hurt him!" Pa snapped back.
"It hurt me!"
"I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU!" I havent seen ma since. And one day pa just never came home from work. I was stuck with my aunt Samantha and her two sons, Mikae and Arron. Now, I ,Bert McCracken, live in New Jersey, and barely at fifteen, Im running away. To where? Newark, of course. The only home I've known for three years--the pitical of my life-- and we're moving from it. We lived in Belleville, but I cant stay there, its too... urban. Now, I start my new life, a runaway.
"Well why not? Hes 12 years old he can handle it." Pa replied sighing.
"He just lost his cousin, he cant take it right now!"
"You do NOT stand up against me Janise!" I heard skin roughly smack skin.
"Darren I know its against our ways, but he is our son! We cant hurt him like that..."
"Its not going to hurt him!" Pa snapped back.
"It hurt me!"
"I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU!" I havent seen ma since. And one day pa just never came home from work. I was stuck with my aunt Samantha and her two sons, Mikae and Arron. Now, I ,Bert McCracken, live in New Jersey, and barely at fifteen, Im running away. To where? Newark, of course. The only home I've known for three years--the pitical of my life-- and we're moving from it. We lived in Belleville, but I cant stay there, its too... urban. Now, I start my new life, a runaway.
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"I-Im not... Im not from around here..."
Where Bert meets Frank in Newark, New Jersey. - "You sing these songs but they dont mean a thing!"