Learning A Lesson the Tough Way

This is inspired by the song A Trophy Father's Trophy Son by Sleeping with Sirens. This story is dedicated to Joshua Deathdealer because he encouraged me to finish it. Thank you. :3

               Beer bottles were laying everywhere. The boy had a look of disgust on his face. He hated when his father was drinking. When he entered the living room his father lay on the couch, passed out cold with a beer bottle in his hand. The boy didn’t want to disturb his father. Not like his father paid any attention to him anyway. He looked into the kitchen and his mother was their paying the bills. She had a tense look on her face. He could tell that his mother was stressed.

                His mother noticed him staring at her. “What do you want, Blain? You know I’m very busy. And I don’t want to be bothered right now.”

                “I just want to know what dinner was tonight, mother.” He said. His mother sighed and had a more stressed look on her face. She hadn’t even thought about dinner. She was busy trying to figure out how to pay the bills. She barely had enough money for dinner tonight. She knew that her husband had been stealing her money to buy beer.

                “I don’t know. Here’s ten bucks. Go to McDonald’s or something.” She said. Blain’s mother didn’t want to be bothered at that moment. She was in a bad mood. Blain could tell by the way she was acting. He hated when his mother was that way. She was cold to him when she was stressed. When she was in a good mood she would show love towards him.

                 He didn’t want to have fast food for the third time this week. He just wanted a nice home cooked meal. He wasn’t able to experience that every day. Blain just wished he could. His mother worked too hard. His father didn’t even have a job.

                Blain just left the house as his father was stirring from his sleep. He didn’t know what was going to happen. He just decided that he would listen at the door for a couple of minutes. Blain saw from the window that his mother entered the living room. He could tell that there was going to be a shouting match from the house.

                “Stop stealing money from me! I am trying so hard to pay the bills! But most of the money goes to your alcohol consumption!” Blain heard his mother shout. He saw his father just shrugged his shoulders. He looked like he didn’t care. His father’s cold eyes just filled with disgust when he saw his wife. Blain didn’t know what that look was for.

                “You don’t even need this darn house. You should just get an apartment anyway. I’ve decided to move out.” His father said. His voice was flat. Blain saw that his mother’s look turned to full shock. She looked down sadly at the ground.

                “Why are you leaving?! We have a child together! He needs his father to look up too.” His mother said hysterically. She was crying hard. Blain could feel that she was tearing herself apart. Blain could feel tears entering his eyes.

                “Who?” He asked. His father was obviously drunk. Blain hated that his father didn’t ever remember who he was. Blain felt that he was nonexistent and didn’t have a place within his father’s heart. All he could feel was pain filling up his chest.

                “You don’t know who your own son is!” His mother exclaimed. Blain could feel tears and he was trying to keep them from falling. He didn’t want his father and mother to know he had heard their conversation.

                “I have a son. Oh wow. Where have I been?” Blain’s father said with stupidity.

                “You have been focused on your drinking! You are never home when I get home from work. You are never home when we need you. Where have you been all this time?” His mother asked her eyes blazing with a mix of sadness and anger.

                “I’ve been with someone better than you. I wish I had never met you or married you. This girl is way better than you. At least she doesn’t complain that I drink. She is the love in my life. I can’t stand you. I just wish you never entered my life. I also have to say I’m filing for divorce. I am going to move away from this town. I won’t have to see your face again.” His father said. Blain could hear the animosity in his voice. Blain could feel the tears starting to slip down his face. He ran away from the house. His mother could see him from the window. She couldn’t even react to what her husband had just said.

                His mother felt numb at the words that his father spoke. Blain couldn’t help but to do anything but run. His father wanted to have nothing to do with him or his mother. That wasn’t how a father should act and Blain knew that. Blain knew that a father should act with love and kindness. He knew that his father shouldn’t have been like that.

                His mother broke down crying while his father went to go pack his bags. He was leaving both of them. He just wasn’t leaving the first girl that he had ever loved, but he was also leaving the son that he brought into the world. His son was now in pain because of his selfishness. He couldn’t see the pain that he was causing his family.

                Blain was running, but he didn’t know to where. He couldn’t tell because his eyes were blurred with tears. That was understandable. Learning what he learned that night would hurt anyone. Blain knew that when he got home that night his father wouldn’t be there. He could feel his mother’s pain and he knew he would find her their crying.

                Blain knew from then on that he would be a better man than his father was. Blain decided when he had a family of his very own that he would take care of them. He wouldn’t leave them at all. He would be there for them every step of the way. Blain would be there through all the rough times. He would be there through the good times. Blain learned a lesson from his father. He learned to never become the man that he was which was a very good life lesson.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoy. You can play the song as you read it if you would like.

Reviews

[Leave me alone....]

omg this is awesome!!! i love it!!! its amazing. i read it through once without the song, and loved it, then i read it again with the song, AND OH MY GOD it fits so well!!! :3 and i LOVE the song this was really good. AND HIS DAD BETTER LEAVE BECAUSE THAT JERK IS A MEANIE!!! and when he does, Blain's mother will finally have enough money to pay the bills. so that way, she'll have less hanging over her head. this was awesome even if it was really sad, but it was the sadness and the honesty in it that made it so amazing, nice job, and i hope that you'll write more stories like this! :)

[John Stussy]

Great story, it sucks that some dads wreck their families and leave them broken without a thought. That circumstance though can make some guys become great, making them the best they can be so they don't cause that same pain. Good work.

[Angie Diane♥♥]

Thank you :3

[John Stussy]

No problem. :) Good luck with the story you're working on.

[Angie Diane♥♥]

Thank you :3
I am almost done with it.

[joshua deathdealer]

Omg Angie. This is so reflective and beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes and filled me with emotions that I thought I had forgotten. So sad and full of honest reality. I enjoyed this very much. Thanks for sharing and the dedication. xo