"Mom please!... I'm sorry!... I'm really sorry... please forgive me... " The boy on the floor starts to plead after being beaten to pulp by his so called mother. His stepbrother Fynn sat down crying witnessing the trauma his brother his going through

"Don't you dare call me mom!... I will never and can never give birth to something as useless and shitty as you" she sneered at the him who was panting anf sobbing on the floor helplessly

"mommy, brother is sorry" Fynn pleaded for his brother

" poor dear, go and watch you tv show , don't mind me" she smiled playful at him but Fynn couldn't buy the idea so he stood up still not moving .

"No mommy, please! Ariel is sorry" he clinged to his mother while in tears

"okay, okay let's leave him alone then " she carried him and was about to head out when she say her husband looking at her

"Oh dear! you scared the hell out of me. since when have you been there? " she asked

" I just came in... what did he do this time around??, I told you not to treat him this way again , he is also our child" The husband frowned at her but when he turned to Ariel his face changed immediately,he gave him a mischievous smile of contentment

"I couldn't help it dear, he got me pissed off and he deserved what he got" she Said and walked out to the living room

" hmm, what did he do ?" he Asked

" you can't believe I sent him to get me stuffs from the store after using close to 2hours I had to walk down to the store but on my way I found him flirting with some kind of a guy on the street, this rubbish sissy thing" she hissed angrily and walked out if the room. Marcus her husband followed her to the kitchen

"Darling, don't call him that, he is just 16 years old, he is a kid, doesn't mean he is being flirty " Marcus sat down awaiting dinner to be served

"sixteen years is not a joke, he is almost eighteen years, he should be old enough to tell difference now. All he does his act girly" she queried

" come on dear, he is not girly at least he doesn't wear makeup,he dresses like a normal child and I don't even see anything bad in him"

" ohhh, so I should wait till he wears makeups" she chuckled

"of course not...Fynn come to papa...what is it you look dull" he beckoned on Fynn

Fynn walked to him slowly and sat in his thigh while Pauline served dinner

"what's wrong?" he asked

"mommy beat Ariel badly" he reported while playing with his father hands

" I'm so sorry dear, forgive mommy"

Few hours later, they all relaxed after having dinner, even though Pauline refused to give Ariel dinner. She had him locked in his room, hoping to let him starve and to make him reflect on himself.

"we are heading in, won't you join in?" Pauline asked

"not yet, I'm still busy with this paperworks,you guys can go in without me ,I will join in later when I'm done"

Soon he noticed that she went in,he checked their room and found her sound asleep. so he went to the kitchen and took some food in the refrigerator, walked to the locked room facing the living room. he unlocked the door and walked in to the room with dimmed light.poor Ariel was asleep on his bed, he tucked himself into his blanket

"hey! hey!... wake up and have dinner" he shook him till he woke up

Ariel was shocked to see his stepfather in his room ,he knew he would have a motive and reason to come to him

"eat up, I bet you only had breakfast" he smirked

Ariel rushed in the food and said thank you while he was munching the food

"slowdown, so you won't choke on the food. No need to hurry we have all night to ourselves. Look at you,all your pretty sissy face have got bruise" he touched his face but Ariel moved away from him

"so now you know you should move away from me, tàke your time, cos in the next few minutes it will be useless" He chuckled

" what did you put in the food" Ariel asked worriedly, because he knew his stepfather can do anything just to get him abused

"Don't panic dear, it's nothing much, Just drop of sleeping dose in your water and Aphrodisiac in your drink so which ever worked first is still gonna be beneficial"Marcus smiled wryly

On hearing this, Ariel spat out the food in his mouth and looked at the drink on the food tray it's was already empty, he looked at the glass cup also was empty. tears rolled down his cheek after he knew that he was done for

"You look worried, Don't worry no one will hear us your mom and Fynn is asleep like a corpse" He patted him softly

Ariel was dumbfounded, soon he starts to feel uncomfortable, he felt his eyes being heavy and his body somehow. He knew what was going on already.

Few minutes later, he was feeling drowsy and he could feel it Marcus hands on him

"Take your filthy hands off me..." he sobbed and while trying to stop him but was all in vain

"Don't fight back, you this fool it's all useless"

"please let me go... please...let...me...go..."he pleaded but all were falling on deaf ears

" please...please let me go...please...let...me...go..."Ariel woke up with tears all over his face.