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Break made a 'hmm' sound at her last comment. So she was like what he expected. Sort of anyway. Superior dancing skills, manners (of a sort), the looks, everything. "Keep up appearances? Those words sound familiar..."
"We must always keep up appearances, Danielle."
"For the last time, Robert, I know!" A frustrated woman said as she did her hair up in a fancy sort of hair-do. It was the day of some fancyy-schmancy socialite ball, and Robert and Danielle ddint' plan on missing it for the world.
"What shall we do with The Boy?"
"Oh, i don't care. I say we leave him here. Might as well. he's not useful for much after that ghastly display yesterday." 'That ghastly display', as she so eloquently put it, was simply their child acting like a common ragamuffin. Or, as the young Zachary, who was only five at the time, would call it, he was acting like a normal kid. A boy sees something interesting and he's NOT supposed to investigate? How messed up is that?
"Fine with me. If he doesn't want to act like a young socialite should, then he shall not reap the benefits a socialite has."
And so they left Zachary, the child sitting in his room under the covers, trying to ignore the gnawing pain in his stomach and the even worse pain in his heart.
'Why do my parents hate me? What did I do wrong?' These two questions chased themselves in a circle around and around the young boy's mind. The gnawing in his stomach temporarily distracted his thoughts as the young boy waited for his parents to come back. As much as he wasn't sure about how to feel about them, they were still his parents. And he needed them home soon.
It was day 3 and they still hadn't given him any food. Would THIS time be the time that their child dies from neglect? That question was the last thought in his head before his mind succumbed to unconsciousness.
His mind catapulted from the past to the preset in the blink of an eye, the memory lasted half a second and not even causing a hiccup in his steps. Yea, Break wasn't that big a fan of those words...
But dark thoughts of his past aside, he returned his attention to Antoinette, trying to bury the shadows of the past from view. "So what's your family like? Were they the usual? Two loving parents, house on the hill, a pokemon pal or two? You know, the usual?"His voice may have sounded casual and carefree, but he wanted - no, needed - to know that there weren't parents out there like his. That there were parents that actually loved thier children. That didn't treat them as accesories to make themselves look better.
Thoughts: Do not fall flat on my face!
Location: School Dance
Feelings: Confident, a bit showoff-ish, yearning for an answer to his question.
Companions: Antoinette and everyone else at the dance.
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