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Sounds of adults shouting Banging, footsteps, more shouting A mans voice gets louder and louder A woman screams A child, about 8 or 9, a little boy Standing in the middle of a tired kitchen His sobs getting louder Tears flowing down his cheeks The shouting gets louder again Another screams from a woman The muffled sound of her begging the man to stop With her screams the boy cries out louder The little boy is now almost screaming himself The boy stands shaking with fear The boy looks out of place Looks helpless in a kitchen, whilst small, around the tiny child seems huge The kitchen door flies open For a moment the little boy is silenced as a fat scruffy man storms into the room The little boy screams out as the man grabs him and drags him out of the kitchen Into the hallway and up the stairs The little boy is bashed against walls on the way The boy is dragged screaming by the man up the stairs A woman grabs the boy The man and woman struggle The boys screams get painfully louder The woman puts herself between the boy and the man More shouting but the words not clear The little boys face is full of fear A womans hand pushes the little boy into a bedroom The little boy crawls into a bed Sits sobbing but he tries to hide the sound of his crying Muffled with a teddy bear he holds tightly He look up for a second out the window As if searching the sky for a reason why The little boy rocks just slightly Shaking, his tiny lips quivering As the sounds of adults shouting become more distant Exhausted the little boy drifts into sleep still sat holding his toy bear As his tears start to dry And in sleep he finds some peace
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