Damaged

by Adriana Jones

Tommy Bravo woke up to a throbbing head, covered in blood, and surrounded by his parents’ and siblings dead bodies. Tommy got up and stumbled to the bathroom and splashed some water on his face when he looked up at his face, his split personality James.

“We killed them,” James said.

“No, you killed them,” Tommy said.

“If I killed them why are you covered in blood,” James replied.

Tommy got quiet and broke the mirror then ran into the living room to figure out what went wrong. First he walked over to his mother and looked down at her trying to remember what he did. Then he picked his mothers body up and drug it down to there basement where they had water containments in the case of an earthquake they had fresh water. Tommy was pretty big to be a twelve year old. He stood at five feet ten inches and he weighed about two hundred pounds, so it was pretty easy for him to pick his mothers dead body up and bring it to their basement. Tommy brought the rest of his family member’s bodies down to the basement and when he came to bring his fathers body down stairs he had a flashback.

“Natalie get in here now,” Mr. Bravo yelled to his daughter.

Natalie took her time getting to the room because she knew what was going to happen when she got in there.

“Yes dad,” she said.

“You know the drill,” he said in the most cynical way as he watched his daughter take her clothes off while crying.

Unknown to Natalie or her father Tommy was in the closet hiding as he watched in horror as his father began sexually abusing his sister. Tommy watched this abuse go on many times since hiding in his parent closet was his favorite hiding place.

Tommy came back to from his flashback and anger kicked in and he blacked out, when he awoke he seen his father’s body chopped into to piece and smelled the strong scent of piss. Tommy picked the pieces up and took them downstairs to where the rest of his family was. Tommy opened up the garage door and poured the water out of the containers and began putting his families’ bodies inside of them. Next he went upstairs to his parent’s room and searched around for their car keys and bank account numbers. Once he found them he went to the garage and got into one of the cars and drove to the local supermarket and bought cleaning supplies and food. Tommy got back home and began cleaning up the place so he wouldn’t completely go insane from seeing the blood. Tommy then went and made himself something to eat and prepare to get ready for school.

The next day Tommy woke up took a shower and got dressed and drove to school. Once he had arrived he parked a couple blocks away and walked over to his school when he got to the steps Mrs. Jenkins his homeroom teacher came out.

“Where’s your mom?” she said.

“She couldn’t drop me off today,” he said and walked into the school.

Mrs. Jenkins thought that was odd since Tommy’s mom always dropped him off at school and never missed a day of dropping him off.

When Tommy got out of school he knew that he would have to go to the bank later on today to pick up some more money and buy some new clothes because he was starting to run out and he didn’t know how to wash. Tommy walked around the corner to where the car was parked and went to his parent’s bank then to Anchor Blue to pick up some clothes. When he reached the bank he took out about five hundred dollars so he could buy something to eat for tonight and get some clothes with the rest.

The next day when Tommy arrived at school Mrs. Jenkins saw that he was wearing new clothes and thought that was also odd since he always came to school with a poor appearance, and his parents didn’t reward him when he did bad in school.

“What’s the special occasion,” Mrs. Jenkins said referring to Tommy’s new clothes.

“There isn’t one,” Tommy said to her.

“Its just kind of odd that you’re wearing new clothes, and I haven’t seen your parents in about three day,” said Mrs. Jenkins.

Tommy just looked at her with no explanation and walked off. Tommy was starting to get nervous because Mrs. Jenkins was beginning to get suspicious and question him.

Instead of going to class Tommy decided to leave it was getting to overwhelming for him. He snuck out of the car and ran over to his car and got in. when he got into the car he put his head on the steering wheel until a voice startled him it was James.

“That bitch is getting to close for comfort its time to get rid of her,” James said.

“No James I just can’t I don’t think I can take this anymore the smell in my house is beginning to get to me,” Tommy cried.

“Don’t punk out now we can get away with it just go to the pier and take a breather,” James said.

“Ok,” Tommy said as he pulled off towards the pier.

Mrs. Jenkins was standing behind a tree next to where the bravo’s car was parked and seen Tommy pulling off in it that’s when she ran over to her car and got in. she knew something wasn’t right and she was going to go over to Tommy’s house and figure out what was going on. Thirty minutes later she was sitting in front of the bravo resident getting ready to go in; she hopped out and ran over to the house. She knocked a couple of times but there was no answer and since the door was open she just went inside. The outside looked perfect compared to the inside it smelled of dirty dishes cleaning supplies and a whole host of other smells. Mrs. Jenkins began looking around for clue so she could figure out where the bravo went. The place looked like nothing had been touched and the family had just been on vacation. Mrs. Jenkins was about to retreat to her car when she seen something glittering by the basement door. She walked over to see what it was and slipped on what she thought was water. When she got up and seen what she slipped in it was blood. As she walked over to the door of the basement and opened the door the smell of rotting flesh hit her nose like punch in the face. Once she was at the bottom of the stairs she seen the water containments with blood leaking out of them. She covered her nose with her shirt sleeve and looked into the containers and was surprised when she seen the bravo families badly decomposed bodies. She took a step back and threw up in a state of shock she didn’t think to call the police that’s when Tommy came in.

“What are you doing down here,” he said to Mrs. Jenkins.

She stood there in shock not knowing what to do or say that’s when it clicked in her mind to call the police. She reached in her purse to grab her phone that’s when the James in Tommy came out and lunged at her. She wasn’t quick enough so James toppled her and began to beat her unconscious. The next time Mrs. Jenkins awoke she was tied to a chair and Tommy was sitting across from her with a gun in his hands.

“Why did you do this to your family?” she said to him.

“I only intended on killing my father but my brother tried to attack me so I had to kill him too,” Tommy said through tears.

“What was the motive behind killing your sister and mother?” the teacher asked.

“My mother and sister died because I knew if I didn’t kill them they would have gone to the police,” he responded.

“And you were scared that you would go to jail?” she said.

“Yes and I knew what they did to people in jail and I didn’t want that to happen to me,” he said.

“So what made you kill your father?” Mrs. Jenkins replied.

“I watched my dad through the closet door rape my sister repeatedly. The night I killed my family I confronted my dad and told my mother that my father had been raping my sister. They insisted that I was lying and I was crazy that is until my sister started crying that my mom started to believe me. She turned to my dad looking for answers and he slapped her across her face and began beating her while we were standing there,” by now Tommy was in tears as he continued his story.

“That’s when I ran upstairs and grabbed one of my father’s guns. I was about to open fire when my brother jumped in front of me and asked me what the hell was I doing. I told him that I was going to kill that bastard. He began to take the gun away from me and in the process I shot him. Next I shot my father the one who I wanted to kill in the first place. Since I knew that my mom and sister would probably tell on me I apologized to them for having to do what I had to do and put a bullet through there heads. After that I blacked out and woke up surrounded by dead bloody bodies,” he explained to Mrs. Jenkins.

“I then stuffed there bodies in these containers down here and went on with my life as if nothing happened,” Tommy said.

Mrs. Jenkins just sat there in shock as she sat back and listened to the story this demented child was telling her she couldn’t say or do anything because she was going to be the next person to lose her life. All she did was beg for her life and thought back on how she wished she would have never gotten suspicious and minded her own business and she wouldn’t be in the situation that she was in now.

“can I ask you a question mrs. Jenkins,” tommy said to her.

Since she had nothing to gain or lose she said yes.

“why did you come here trying to figure out what happened to my family?” he asked.

“I came because I was afraid something happened to your family which I was right. Now I regret even having suspicions about what even happened,” she said.

“im just begging you please don’t kill me I have a lot of family that will become worried and come looking for me. I also have a tracking device in my car that will tell the police where I am located so you wont get away with this,”

Right then tommy put a bullet into mrs. Jenkins head. He untied her body and stuffed it into the container with the rest of the bodies. Then he had a fight with james.

“the police are going to find out sooner or later what I did to my family and mrs. Jenkins I might as well just kill myself right now,” tommy said to james.

“no you idiot maybe we could get a ransom of the teacher,” james replied.

“are you crazy she dead what kind of ransom will we get off of her,” tommy yelled.

“a good one so get her cell phone and call one of her family members,” james ordered.

“no I have to put a stop to you and myself I killed the ones who I loved and loved me the most. I didn’t have to kill my family you’ve been controlling me for too long and im sick of it,” tommy said while putting the gun to his head.

“you fool don’t do it,” james yelled.

“goodbye james,” he said as he blasted his brains out of his head.