writingcamp Ciello

Week 5: How to design conflicts?

It was a cozy night, she was sleeping soundly when her mother wakes her up. "Darling, wake up." The clueless Trinette opened her eyes with a confuse look written on her face as she looks at the beautiful lady who woke her up.

"What is it, mom?"

"Get up, darling. Let's get out of here."

She holds the fork then slowly took a piece of part on the cheesecake then shoves it in her own mouth.

"B-But, what about dad?"

"We don't need your dad, darling."

"But...we're not complete without dad." Little Trinette said with a sad tone in her voice. Her mother gently puts her index finger infront of her daughter's lips, making her stop from speaking. "Your dad doesn't love us, sweetie." Those words came in echoing in young Trinette's mind as she watch her mother pack her clothes in a luggage.

Right. She blinks her eyes. She's right. The way her father's palm landed on her mother's porcelain like face and the sound of sting is still echoing in her mind. The image of her father with another woman in their own house while her mother is not around haunts her still.

"Hurry, now." She said as she reached out her hand to Trinette. Hurriedly, the child hops out from her bed and her small footsteps can be heard in a very minimum sound as she approached her mother and intertwines her small fingers with hers.

Hurriedly, making minimum sounds, Trinette and her mother steps out from her room. Their footsteps can be barely heard by anyone. While gripping tightly to both of their lagguage and Trinette's hand, her mother dragged her from the hallway of the rooms to their living room.

"Where are you going?"

Before her mother could turn the doorknob of the main door, the familoar voice made them both stop as their head turn to the direction of the kitchen and saw the abusive father holding a knife and was busy cutting his own apple when he saw his wife and daughter. "You're not f*****g going anywhere!" He raised his voice. The moment Trinette heard those, her heart beats faster than it usually does.

Her mother didn't waste enough time as she hurriedly ywist the doorknob and pulled the door open while her father as fastened his walk towards them. The moment they stepped out the house, the fastened steps by Trinette and her mother turned into running— so as their father.

"GET BACK HERE! YOU'RE NOT LEAVING ME!" The horrifying tone of his voice can still be heard from Trinette's mind. Echoing as if she's in a cave.

She was so scared.

The only hope she's holding was her mother's.

As they ran, little Trinette kept on looking back and the image of her father holding a knife while chasing them is still haunting her.

"What—" They both looked around as they didn't feel the presence of the man anymore. For a second, they felt relieve. Her mother heaved a deep and relieving sigh. She crouched down to level Trinette.

"Hold on, darling. I need to call Helen. She can help us— AH!" Before she could continue her words. "MOM!" A hand grabbed her mother's hair, pulling it for her to stand up from crouching. Although weak, Trinette uses all of her strength to her father's torso but he seems unbothered as his attention is all on his wife.

"You're really gonna leave me?" Gritting his teeth, he asked. "After everything I've done to you bo—"

"You've done nothing to us! You just abused us!"

"You little b***h—"

"STAY AWAY FROM MOMMY!"

"Shut up!" He shouted pushing Trinette away from them, making her lose her balance and fall on the ground.

"You really think you can escape from me, huh?" He whispered in his wife's ear.

"P-Please... just let us go.." She pleaded.

He laughed maniacally as he heard those words. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, YOU REALLY THINK I WOULD?! YOU LITTLE b***h!"

"MOMMY!"

Her father pushed her mother on the road with a strong force, making her fall on the road and so as the loud honk from the truck catch their attention as it was driving towards Trinette's mom. Everything happened so quickly. Her mom got hit by a truck, it took some seconds delay for the truck to stop that it dragged her body for a second or so.

Trinette's eyes widened as she witnessed such horrific event.

And its her mother who died.

"f**k! HEY! COME BACK HERE, ASSHOLE!" Shouted the man that was on the truck along with the driver when they noticed her father ran away.

Trinette sat their dumbfounded. She can't believe what she just saw.