66 Refuge Part 5 (2/2)

John smiled and greeted his mother who ignored him and went straight for the bread on the table. The smell of being passionately embrace was strong on her, but John was used to that too so he ignored it.

Drawn over by the sound John's mother was making John's dad turned around to see what was going on.

”what are you doing you're getting the floor dirty. I didn't take an arrow in the knee for this city to clean up this shit”.

Jean's dad was a part of the Delmar City reserve unit, but one night while drinking he stumbled and knocked over a bunch of crates that had glass bottles inside them. one of the glass shards got lodged into his knee.

Not having enough money because he's drunk and gambled it away. he couldn't get his leg fixed bought, so he forced John to join the reserve unit in his place in order to keep living in the wall.

John's mom sat down on a chair and started eating some of the bread. Then she told John to clean up the mess on the floor. John still with a smile on his face picked up a rag, got on his knees and started to clean up the splatter on the floor.

When his mother finished eating she went back inside her room to sleep. while also leaving another white spot on the chair for John to clean up.

While John was still cleaning up the mess his mother left him with a smile on his face. John's father not finding anything good to watch on TV decided to head out the day.

John's father approached John and ask them for the money he made working as part of the Reserve unit. John expecting this already had the money prepared. John's father took it's put on some clothes then left most likely not going through turn the late that night or the crack of dawn.

Finish cleaning John washed his hands then went to his room where it's was pretty basic as well. The room had only a mattress, a telescope, a wooden box next to the telescope, and a closet.

The mattress was old it was the same one he's been sleeping on since he was a kid I was rocked to sleep by the sounds his mother made when she had customers over.

Still with a smile on his face John took off his uniform and hung it up neatly. With out any cloths on you could clearly see John's body and why he only wears cloths with long sleeves also why he preferres not to use his hands in a fight.

John's arms were covered in old self inflicted scares. Occasionally John would cut himself deep to focus on a different kind of pain instead of his life. On his back was a few burn marks that he got from his father smoking and extinguishing the cigarette on John's back. Not having any money for health potions or surgery the wounds stayed and accumulated weakening the strength John has in his arm.

Put on one of the few raggedy pieces of clothes he owned ands seeing it was still bright outside John decided to play his favorite game with his favorite toys.

John took out a few handmade dolls he kept in the wooden box next to his telescope. Then he used the telescope to look at the families that's he could spy on through their windows or on the streets.

Then he started to play with the dolls acting out what he thought a real loving family would be like. John has done this for years always playing with his dolls and secrets in his room. Hours would go by and he wouldn't even now.

While playing with his dolls and looking at people through his telescope for some reason John started to sing. ”I've been chasing rainbows to get away from here, I've been chasing rainbows to wined up back where I start ...”

When John started to sing a Furious thumping noise came from the other side of the wall it was John's mother.

”Stop singing i'm trying to sleep” after that John when to back to playing with his dolls button silence still with a smile on his face.