Prologue
Luca Rivers POV
I stare at my hands as my grandmother screams at me. "Stupid boy! I never should have agreed to raise you!"
I force myself not to make a sound as she slaps me across the face, her heavy ring scraping my skin. My head snaps to the side and tears fill my eyes. "Pathetic. This is why your parents left you.Get out of my sight."
"Yes, Ma'am."
I practically run to my room and slide to the ground slamming my hands over my ears and rocking back and forth, trying to take deep breaths while counting to 100.
It doesn't work.
The pressure in my head stays, thoughts jamming together, all the things that went wrong today crowding out everything else, making me hyper-fixate.
Around the time I reach 60, my door flies open and Grandmother storms in, grabbing a fistful of my blonde hair. "You little bitch," she seethes, "I just got a call that you got 'overstimulated' at school. I told you to cut out the bullshit and act like a normal human."
Fear fills me as she drags me to the kitchen and I see my uncle. He's already holding a belt. I try to bolt, but he catches me, jerking my hoodie off and my other uncle comes in from the garage, holding me still.
I brace myself, but the first lash still makes my knees give out. I'm given 50. Then Uncle Marcus, who is holding me, punches me in the face, and it all goes black.
Word count: 256
Sorry for how short this is. I just wanted a quick prologue to give some background to Luca, and how he was raised
