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MIKE –Age 21: Hello, brother
I look at the news I’ve been collecting for three years. They are covering the walls of my room in this madhouse. Everywhere I look, I either see my failure of a father or the golden boy of a brother. I know better, though. I’ve been collecting news about my sweet little brother when they give us the thirty minutes of computer use – only some of the good ones have this advantage and I’m smart enough to be one of them. I can add up the dots when I see him with one of the drug traffickers in a club and after a few months later when he buys a car for a million dollars.
I count days since the newspapers announced the death of the senator. Finally one week later the day has come. Two caretakers come into my room, grabbing my arms they escort me to the manager’s room.
And he is sitting there with an uncomfortable expression on his face, but he has no other choice to come and get me if he wants that legacy as much as me.
“Hello, Mike. This gentleman here wants to see you,” the manager smiles like I’m his favorite freak in here. Normally he doesn’t even know our names, neither he cares.
I don’t take my eyes from the man in pristine suit w
ho has the same hair color as mine…
“Hello, brother. I’ve been expecting you sooner.”
He looks at me with a disgusted look like I’m nothing but some mud on his shoes. Still he needs me to get his daddy’s money and I know more than he thinks I do about him so I’m holding the power.
“You will come to the lawyer with me and sign whatever I want today,” he says.
“And then?”
“You’ll come back here,” he glares.
“Now, listen to me, brother. I know what is written in that file your over-priced lawyer showed you, okay? You have to deal with my discharge from here, get me some fake ID, and give me the half of everything he had. So before you do those things I won’t even sign your nipples, got me?”
He looks at me like he hates me and he probably does, but he can’t make me take a step back.
“Mr. Beans, prepare his discharge files, please and make it top secret,” he says through this teeth and hands me a yellow envelope, “These are your driver license and ID.”
And just like this I have him in my palm to play however I want to and my power over him will grow bigger and bigger each day after that.
Doctor’s Office– February 3, 2016
“What happened after that? When he caught you reading that file?”
“He put me back into that room,” I answered her, shaking with the cold I felt remembering that room.
“For how long?”
“Days… I think a week. I don’t remember.” I shrugged. I didn’t think this was important and I didn’t want to think of that room.
“Why did he let you out of that room, Angel?”CC asked, looking at me over her glasses. Her pencil was in her hands again. She was twirling that between her fingers with the same gesture I grown used to.
A smile made its way to my face as I answer her proudly, “Because I became his.”
Her eyes studied me. I felt like a guinea pig whenever she did that, but I held my ground, lifting my chin up.
She sighed and placed her pencil on her desk. Lacing her fingers in front of her she asked, “You preferred to live with him, preferred him to hurt you than staying in that room?”
“Yes.”
“Why, Angel? Why was that room that bad?”
“Because that room is everything I didn’t want to be. I can’t be human in that room; I can’t go to bathroom, I can’t eat without his permission. No interaction, no freedom no anything,” I kept mumbling. I think it was the longest answer I gave her.
“Have you never felt relieved that you can be away from him?”
