Every 26th of the month, my parents would contact me and ask for money.Being as I’m the only person who had an actual job in that family, they had always reached out to me. Usually, I’ve always had this date remembered because every month, I save my money so that I could give it to the kids. My siblings. I can’t depend on my parents in providing them what they needed.

I plop myself down on my bed and grab a pillow.Pressing it down on my face, I scream obscenities. Most of the words I’ve learned in my youth from the other druggies that had been in our neighborhood. Once, they told me that if I continue saying words like this, my mother will die. Since then, I made it a habit of saying at least five curse words per day. Obviously, it didn’t work.

When I had been young, the house had always looked ugly to me.I spent my youth living next to a trailer park. Our house just a few steps away from the dump. It was inside a gated compound filled with the same horrible white houses with the graying picket fences.

 “Have you ever had him checked in the hospital?” The words leave my mouth with much more ferocity than I intended. My parents’ eyes widened, surprised I even had it in me to say such things to them. My mother’s ice turned icy, like how it used to back when I had been younger. She scoffs, crossing her arms against her chest, “Look at this place, you think we could afford a hospital visit when we can’t even pay for no damn elect

“Get out!”My mother was in hysterics, her hands outstretched towards Markus. I could tell she just had her nails done, the tips of her nails were sharpened and dyed a deep red. My father was smarter, he slipped his arms under my mother’s arms and stopped her from hurting us. If she had been an animal, you could tell she was probably foaming at the mouth by this time.“Get out!” She screamed again, her saliva hitting me square in the face. Crinkling my nose, I lift my arm up to wipe it off. Disgusting. “Get out, both of you!”Markus fixed his collar, looking at my mother straight in her eyes.“We would gladly do just that,” He then looked around the room. His eye