Syotos
Chapter one
"Steve. Yo, Stevey, wake up dude." I heard a voice said
as I woke up. My eyes had to adjust for the unwelcomed sun
shining brightly throught the windows. When I looked up to put a
face to the previously disembodied voice, I saw it was Mike. I
had known him since 2nd grade, all the way till now at the
age of 38.
"Dude, Steve, get ahold of yourself," he said in his
thick british accent. "It's been 7 years. You've got
to get over it man. Get out, get a job, do
something."
As soon as he said 7 years, it gave me a flashback.
"Daddy, daddy, you're home!" my little girl Emilie
said, running up to me with a big hug to follow. I picked her up
and hugged her properly. While still carrying Emilie, I went up
to my wife and kissed her. I had just gotten back from a recent
deployment to some sh.thole in the middle-east. I was glad to be
home. Then, two weeks later, I came home from
getting groceries for my then pregnant wife. When I
arrived, there was a thick web of yellow crime scene tape
surrounding my house. A police officer came up to me and
asked,
"Who are you sir?"
"Steve. Steve Whitticker. I live here. Whats going on?"
i asked, fearing the worst. a lump slid down my throat as i tried
to hold myself together.
"May I ask where you were, Steve?"
"The gorcery store, you can even check my car. now where is
my wife and kids?"
"I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, sir, but.. your
wife and daughter were killed."
"Daughter and son," I croaked. "My wife was 6
weeks pregnant."
And all of that brings me to where i am today. a man, so
distraught by his own wife and kids' deaths, that still,
seven years later he cant even stop crying himself to sleep at
night. A man who was once a highly
respected military officer is now the bum who sits in
his empty house and gets drunk before 10 am every day. To hide
the pain, the emotions, all of the feelings broiling inside, the
hate, the sorrow, everything.
The thoughts and emotions were compounded by the fact that the
killer was never truly found. With no fingerprints, bullets, or
many wittnesses, the cops couldn't do much. Only one man was
brought into court but was sooon deemed to be innocent by new
information. everyone seemed to have an alibi.
"STEVE! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Mike yelled. I had drifted of
into a haze consisting of flashbacks, thoughts, and emotions. I
often did this. I was taken to a counselour and even that
didn't seem to do anything for it. I would still drift off
with no warning and would have to be woken out of it.
"Sorry Mike. Drifted off."
"Yeah, I know. God man, I hate seeing you like this. What do
you say man, lets go out today. And NO booze, either."
"fine, nothing could make this worse," I griped and got
up to clean myself up, something i hadnt done in a
while.