Little Boy and His Nightmare
“Hey zack, may i talk to you?”
His teacher said. He walks over to the teachers desk dragging his head and arms. “yes Ms. Bogger?”
He slowly says.
“ Are you alright? lately you haven't been yourself. Everything at home good? i mean look at you, you got bruises all over.”
She questioned him. He hesitates to respond. Soon after he replies with
“ ye...yes. Everythings fine Ms.Bogger. My bruises are from football.”
He tries not making eye contact by looking out the window.
“ okay, you can sit down now.”
She
responded softly. Zack is 11 years old and doesn't play a sport. He is a
quiet kid that gets good grades. He always sits in the back of the room
and never raises his hand in class. Also he doesn't really have any
friends. He loves the outside and probably can outsmart anyone in the
forest. He knows every little thing about the woods behind his house.
The woods are about 6 miles long. The final bell rings as everyone piles
out of school as Zack slowly watches and walks behind everyone. His dad
is supposed to pick him up this afternoon. He usually parks by the
playground. Zack spots his dads car near the back of the playground and
starts to run over to the car. His dad was tightly parked between two
cars. Zack runs and swings open the front door and
“Smash”
The door whacks the side of the car next to them. Zack's dad jumps out of the car while screaming
“ Zack what was that?”
Zack stands there and just points at the damage done to his dads car.
“what the heck are you doing kid.”
his dad says while picking him up and tossing him into the front seat after smacking him across the face.
“ Your lucky no one saw this incident Zack.”
His dad crabs while flying out of the school parking lot.
“Get out of the car you stupid kid and go up to your room immediately.”
He runs jumps out of the car crying and runs into the house and right
up stairs to his room. He jumps onto his bed face down and just lays
there. A few hours later he is awoken by his mom.
“ Are you okay Zack?”
his mom asked.
“ ye...Yes im fine.”
he replys still laying face down into his bed.
“Then.. why did you come up here right after school? you never do that.”
She keeps asking questions.
“ I DONT KNOW!”
He
screams unexpectedly while smacking his hands against the surface of
his bed. His mom walks out of the room and closes the door. In the next
hour zack gets up and goes down stairs. Climbing all over the counters
he searches the cabinets for something to eat.
“Zack, what are you doing! Get down from there right now.”
His dad yells.
“Im just looking for something to eat dad. I'm hungry.”
Zack says with a frown on his face.
“I dont care. We are eating dinner soon. Now go amuse yourself and I dont want to see or hear you till then. Got me?”
His dad would just beat on him. He would never stop yelling at Zack.
Everything Zack did wrong his dad would punish him in a very wrong way.
Zack makes his way down stairs. His mom left to go to work at 4 o clock.
She works the night shift at the most popular restaurant in town. Zack
turned on the tv in his play room in the basement and sat on on his
futon. He flips through the channels to try to find his favorite show,
Mouse in the house. Zack waits and waits for his dad to tell him to come
up for dinner. Its been about 2 and a half hours. Its now about 8 O’
Clock at night. Before he knows it the door opens at the top of the
stairs
“Lets go Dinners ready.”
His dad says with an irritant tone to it. Zack jumps and runs up the stairs and reopens the door.
“ whats for dinner dad?”
Zack ask politely.
“Meat loaf with beans.”
His dad replies with a disgust look on his face.
“ Ew, i dont want this.”
Zack
says while turn immediately around. Before he can get to the top of the
stairs he is grabbed from the collar and placed in a seat at the dinner
table.
“your eating this. You have no choice.”
Zack sits there with his arms crossed.
“ do you want me force it down your throat you little kid. i will, now get eating. NOW!”
In My book, The Big Field which was written by Mike Lupica the main character was a die hard for baseball. Hutch, the main character, Has been playing baseball for years now. He is about fifteen years young. Hutch usually plays shortstop but hes trying out for a new team and they already have one named daryl and is projected to go pro. Hutch didn't think he would have chance in beating daryl for the position so he tried out for 2nd base. Hutch successfully made the team and got a new starting position at second base. Hutches father played baseball when he was a kid and wanted to play professional baseball but one day he finally realized he was never going to be good enough to play professional ball. In that case a gave up on baseball and never wanted a thing to do with it. The problem is all hutch ever wanted was to have his dad support him and go to all his games which he never did. Later on in the book, Hutches team ended up winning the championship. After hutch told his dad, who never wanted to talk about baseball again, His dad was very proud of his son and started falling back in love with baseball. That changed both hutches and his dads life. That brought hutch and his dad back to being close and loving the sport of baseball as hutches dad used too.
