SILENT SCREAMS.
JANUARY 2nd 2008
My family’s ritual during the New Year is to go visiting close relatives. This year, we went to one of our relatives’ and it was... weird.
When we got there, we heard someone screaming so my dad knocked the door really hard, cos the screams were coming from inside the house and it seemed that if he didn’t knock really hard, no one would know that we were outside. All their neighbours said nothing when we asked if they knew what was happening. Eventually my uncle opened the door and my dad quizzed him for a while about the screams and all. I was pressed, really pressed so I made a bee line for the bathroom. I forgot to knock and when I opened, she didn’t see me but I saw my aunt washing her face. When I looked closer, she was spewing blood from her mouth. She looked up into the mirror and saw me by the door, she turned around and smiled at me, I was motionless, smileless and scaredful...if the words exist. She motioned on me to come in and shut the door which I did and she told me she fell down and that was how she got the blood in her mouth. I stood there looking at her and wondered if she thought I had just arrived from mars. It seemed she understood the look on my face cos she stopped lying. Turns out, my uncle forgot to go to the gym the day before so he found a gym in her. I felt like going up to him and kicking him in his family heirloom but I didn’t.
When I got back into the sitting-room, I saw him sitting there like a saint with horns. I hated him. When my aunt came into the room, she looked overly made-up and she smiled sideways and I know it’s because of a blow to that angle. I looked at her in horror but she winked at me.
In retrospect, I wonder why she did that. She should have just told everyone cos that was what was on all our minds. I hate that man!
My family’s ritual during the New Year is to go visiting close relatives. This year, we went to one of our relatives’ and it was... weird.
When we got there, we heard someone screaming so my dad knocked the door really hard, cos the screams were coming from inside the house and it seemed that if he didn’t knock really hard, no one would know that we were outside. All their neighbours said nothing when we asked if they knew what was happening. Eventually my uncle opened the door and my dad quizzed him for a while about the screams and all. I was pressed, really pressed so I made a bee line for the bathroom. I forgot to knock and when I opened, she didn’t see me but I saw my aunt washing her face. When I looked closer, she was spewing blood from her mouth. She looked up into the mirror and saw me by the door, she turned around and smiled at me, I was motionless, smileless and scaredful...if the words exist. She motioned on me to come in and shut the door which I did and she told me she fell down and that was how she got the blood in her mouth. I stood there looking at her and wondered if she thought I had just arrived from mars. It seemed she understood the look on my face cos she stopped lying. Turns out, my uncle forgot to go to the gym the day before so he found a gym in her. I felt like going up to him and kicking him in his family heirloom but I didn’t.
When I got back into the sitting-room, I saw him sitting there like a saint with horns. I hated him. When my aunt came into the room, she looked overly made-up and she smiled sideways and I know it’s because of a blow to that angle. I looked at her in horror but she winked at me.
In retrospect, I wonder why she did that. She should have just told everyone cos that was what was on all our minds. I hate that man!
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