chapter 6

while father was away. As father was away things was bad for me. After the knife incident father spent more time away from the house, I felt like I had nobody any more. Father always told me don’t worry one day we both be out this madhouse. Mother did some very extreme sad things to me. One day mother told me to clean the bathroom. She got a bucket and filled it with ammonia and Clorox and closed the bathroom door. The smell made me sick to my stomach I couldn’t take it. I was coughing up blood because my body could not take the smell. I felt like I was going to die. Mother called that the gas chamber. I didn’t know where she was coming up with these ideals to punish me. Towards the end of the summer mother must have became bored with finding ways to torture me around the house. One day after I was done doing my morning chores mother sent me out to cut grass and bring the money back to her. I went house to house and most of the people said they didn’t want their grass cut. One lady gave me a paper brown bag with food in it because she felt bad for me because how I looked. As I was walking home mother pull up and took the food from me. When we got home mother made me get a cold bath and try to drawn me. Then she made me sit in the cold water for hours. I didn’t know what to do. I try to stay still so I can stay warmed up. I was shaking because I was so cold. Then when Christmas came I thought I wasn’t going to get nothing for Christmas. But I got a pair of skates. I thought it was a good thing but really it wasn’t. Mother made me skate up n down the block with just a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. I had to skate up and down the block for hours in the cold weather. Then mother and the lady across the street became very close. The lady would always ask questions about why David always in trouble. Then mother stop being cool with her. The next thing you know mother was being nice to me. I worried why she was being so nice I couldn’t believe it was true. So couple days later a lady came to our house wanting to talk to my mother. She told me to go outside in play. Then the lady called me in the room in started to ask me question. Then things went back to normal.