Chapter 5 The Accident 12/11/09

OK this time she has gone to far! she called me up to clean up after supper, threatening, while waving a carving knife around, that if i didnt finish on time she was going to kill me. I didnt think anything of it, since she says that so often. Russell is watching me as he rocks back and forth on mothers leg, as if riding a stick pony. Mothers eyes are glazed over, as usual. But something is different this time. She bagan to weave back and forth, as if she were about to fall flat on her face. I saw somthing shiny flash towards me seconds before I felt the knife plunge into my body, right above my stomach, causing me to collapse and black out. As I came to, I could feel the warm liquid flowing from my chest. I looked around realizing that I was propped up on the toilet in the bathroom with mother hastingly placing gauze on my wound, as Russell chanted " Davids going to die, the Boys going to die." That was the last thing I heard before blacking out again. As I came to again, I was certain mother would load me into the car and take me to the hospital with a bogus story about how I was playing with a knife. I thought for sure that this little game of hers was over, that I was going to be a normal part of the family again. I was taken by suprise as mother finished wrapping my wound and told me without emotion that I now had 30 minutes to finish my chores. Dumbfounded, I walked back towards the kitchen with what little strength I had. I walked into the room where my father sat reading the newspaper. I told him what mother had done, but he just sat there telling me that I had better get busy and do my chores before mother came in and caught me. I washed and dried the dishes, but was unable to put them away so father did that for me. I went downstairs to change my shirt, but mother met me at the bottom. She gently tore my shirt away from my body and cleaned the wound. She then allowed me to play outside with my brothers. As I went to bed, I fell asleep dreaming of being drenched in warm sheets of hot rain. I woke the next morning covered in blood. Mother is acting as if nothing has happened. I fell asleep sitting on the bottom step, dreaming that I was SUPERMAN!!