Lacey falls back away from the hole that she had just found in the wall, her chest rising and falling erratically because she is breathing heavy with fear. Her bottom hits the hard floor and she puts her hands out to keep from falling over backwards. She had just seen an eye. She knew that it had to be Andy or the kids, unless someone else was in there. But regardless of whose eye she had seen, it was still creepy as hell.
Had that man been spying on them as they were in their room? She could see into the room so well that she could make out the rumpled bed that she and her husband where just laying in together only mere moments before. As she remembered the moment that she and Andy had shared hours before, she wondered if someone had been watching them. The thought freaks her out.
* Extremely Graphic Content Warning * Contains some mention of alcohol use by a minor and child endangerment are present. Strong language, as well. ~ June 7, 1971 He was turning six in just three days. His mommy says that this is his 'big boy' birthday, but if he was not mistaken, she had told him that last year too. But Nate didn't care. He was just finally ready to be a big boy. He was getting really tired of being treated like a baby all of the time. Then again, Nate was tired of a lot of things. Like how his Mommy and Daddy were constantly fighting with each other. His daddy had bought this big house tha
June 7, 1971 “Come on damn it. Let's go, boy!” Dave tells Nate, using his foot to roughly shove the child's chair back from the table, so that the boy was forced to stand up. “Get your little ass in the truck. We are going home.” Nate jumped up immediately to his feet. His daddy was in a really bad mood right now and Nate did not want to cross him. After he had let Nate taste his beer, he had begun to talk with some other man in the place. The man made some remarks about Nate's mother that Dave didn't like and their was a very heated argument. Had the man behind the bar getting drinks not broken it up, he would have had a drunken bar fight on his hands. But he did not intervene soon en
* Extremely Graphic Content Warning * This chapter contains domestic abuse, verbal abuse and graphic violence. Mention of alcohol and child endangerment are present. This chapter may be unsuitable for some readers. Strong language, as well. ~ June 7, 1971 Nate could hear his parents fighting above him upstairs. He was hiding in the dark, tiny room under the stairs. It was dirty and dusty, with mouse droppings every where and spider webs all over the place. It was scary to sit in the tight space, not able to see anythong around him, but it was the one place that h
* Extremely Graphic Content Warning * Contains domestic abuse, verbal abuse and graphic violence. Mention of child endangerment and dark themes involving children are present. This chapter may be triggering for some readers. Strong language, as well. Extremely morbid content ahead. ~ January 13th 1973 Nate places the picture into the frame, before he lays it on the table, face up. Staring down at the picture, he feels a pang in his chest as he thinks about poor Darla.
January 3rd 1977 Nate hears the cries all through the house and he smiles to himself. All of Betsy's screams have finally come to an end, as the baby's angry bellows sound out. She finally had the baby. Betsy had been her almost a year, but a few months ago she started getting bigger in her belly and she was tired a lot. She discovered that she was going to have a baby and Daddy was thrilled. When yesterday, she starting bleeding and crying that she hurt, Dad freaked out, because the baby wasn't do for nearly three more months or so. But Dad won't take her to the hospital and but he did call a doctor from a nearby town to come over and check her out.
May 29th 1977 Nate would not say that he considered himself to be a cruel person by any means. He was pretty much your average twelve year old. He liked looking through comic books and eating sugary cereal. Typical kid stuff. Except that he was incredibly intelligent with an impressively high IQ. In his small, off the map, hick town full of imbreds and idiots, as he refered to them, he was the smartest one around. Combine his above average intelligence with his unsual choice of hobbies, and he might be considered a sociopath. Nate knows this, because he has a book on mental disorders and behaviors that he has read cover to cover many times. If ever asked, he would be comfortable classifying himelf as a sociopath.
* Extremely Graphic Content Warning * Contains situations of sexual assault and graphic violence. Mention of child endangerment and dark themes involving children are present. This chapter may be concerning for some readers. Extremely morbid content ahead. ~ Brenda was right after Betsy, in 1978. Dave had kidnapped her from a grocery store in northen North Dakota when she went out to buy milk and bread for her children. She was in her late twenties or so, but younger than thirty. She stayed for two month but she would not quit trying to escape. Dave slit her throat with a knife.
Casting one last look around the room to see if he had forgotten anything, he is satisified to see that he had everything that they had brought in. Andy gathers the children to his sides and each child, frightened beyond belief at his sudden display of fear, hold tightly on to his shirt, grabbing it by the fistfuls. Andy carries all of their luggage that they had taken into the motel with them out into the cold night. The three of them run to the car and he rips open the doors to the back seat, shoving the luggage and the children inside. “Jack, I am locking the doors. I want the two of you to hide in the floor board, under all of the luggage. Do not open the doors or leave this car for any reason until your mother or I get back. Do both of you understand me?” "Yes." Jack tells h