He can’t seem to get the look on his father’s face out of his head. Even while carrying his bloodied friends, that look is stuck. It was an unfocused look of hate and plotting. It seems to Steven that his father is hiding something. Most likely thinking about what he would do to the guy who took her, I’d hate to be anyone who crossed my father, Steven thinks.
He knows how painful the sting of his father’s whip can be, as well as the impact of his fists. Steven knows that crazy look in his father’s eye well, and knows he doesn’t want to be anywhere around if he snaps. Mr. Smith is a very tall man. He is covered in freckles, and has an abnormally long arm span. He is big boned with hardly any fat and an enormous frame. Though he works in a*****e and is usually a cheerful and sociable man, h
