10 Fight in the House
"No... please..."
I take the money and leave the alley.
I head home.
I walk once again on the street at night but now the scene is completely different from this morning. The streets are full of light. All the lanterns that weren't lit in the morning was now lit up and there are street vendors here and there. And they are all lit up full of color. There are ones selling noodles that they make by hand then there are also stores that are brightly lit up on both sides of the streets. The colors of blue red and purple and all sorts of colors lite up both sides of the streets. There are also street performers on the streets. Kids that collected money while standing on there hands.
I walk past all of these and finally reach the the building with 3 levels. I cross the street and open the door to the apartment 3C.
I open the door and the lights still aren't on. My father still has cash on him I guess... or he's borrowing money... Whatever.
I get into my room and lie down on the clearly stiff bed. The bed doesn't have a mattress it is actually made of wooden boards nailed into each other and then 3 thin blankets are layered on top of it.
That's my bed in the year 2011. And had been my bed for as long as I remembered.
I lie down and shut my eyes.
Suddenly I hear a thump and know its my mother. She shuts the door outside quietly and her footsteps get louder and louder until she reaches my bedroom door. She unlocks the door with unknown means and just opens up the door. She sees me lying down on my bed with my clothes on and shakes my shoulder.
"Feng wake up, Feng..."
"Hm?"
"Don't wear your day clothes to bed. Did you take a shower yet?"
"no..."
"Go take a shower!"
I just look at her...
"Go take your shower or I'm going to take away your phone!"
The truth is I used to really care about my phone as it is one of the most expensive things in my house. The most expensive things other then the Laptop in my mothers house. The phone is a IPhone XX the newest edition at that time. It costed the family a whole lot to buy that phone and my father was cursing non stop at my mother for buying it.
That's why usually in the past before the apocalypse I would always listen to my mother when she said she'll take my phone away. It's the most expensive thing I had.
I just left to take the shower. I got into the extremely small 1 person tub and turned on the water and started cleaning.
I was able to get quite a lot of muck off of my body as a result.
Suddenly I hear the front door opening again and I already knew who came back.
He didn't say anything and just went straight to the kitchen grabbing a beer, if I remember correctly he lost all his money along with 5,000 in my previous life and then the argument continued on and on about how he needed to repay the other guy.
"How much did you lose! You didn't lose everything did you!"
"..."
The silence confirms her guess.
"How could you do such a thing! Feng is still in middle school instead of help you instead-"
"Smash"
He throws the beer can at her.
"Who the hell do you think your talking to! I'm your husband! So what if I lost some money it's only ..."
"You! You! You couldn't have also borrowed money could you!"
"..."
"How much..."
"5-"
"500?"
"5000"
"..."
"It's already hard enough to provide for just us how do you expect to pay this off!"
"Well... the money you saved in the..."
"No! Thats for Feng's school money, how could you even think about it! You will get a job in the city!"
"We need to pay it back first! How about we first use that to pa-"
"Preposterous! You will get a job and pay all of it back yourself I am not going to use Feng's college fund to payback your gambling debt!"
"You!"
"Hmpf!"
"Is your skin getting itchy!?"
Just when my father was about to slap my mother I came out of the bathroom with a icy cold look on my face.
"Why aren't you asleep yet!"
He sits back down in his seat and starts drinking again...
"Listen Feng, your father still calls himself a man when he's relying on me to provide for us while he went an-"
"Smash"
"What are you saying! You go back to bed."
"You lost 5000 and still dare try to ask what I'm saying! Let me tell you Qi Tian Yu I will not gamble with our son's future to fill in your stupid gambling debt!"
"AH!"
He smashes all of the bottles of beer on to the floor. The floor is soaked in beer.
"I am his father so what if I use his funds to pay back the debt! I have the right! It's not like he has to go to college he could just go and work!"
"Qi Tian Yu, what did you just say!?"
"..."
"You have the right? Where did the money come from? How come I don't see you working to get the money? You say you have the right!? You have the nerve to say that to me! If it wasn't for Feng Yu I would have divorced you long ago!"
A continuous barrage of words went back and forth and the fight continued to intensify. I just stood there watching them.
