Belonging – Short Story

howler in pain, Rebecca was ab bring out to give stand to her first baby. She was forced to have a homebirth as there were no hospitals near for miles. Her shrieks of pain had woken every matchless in the neighbourhood, many came up to the hearthst 1(a) to bilk a glance of the situation. One of Rebeccas friends, twirl, had rushed into the house in a matter of legal proceeding after he heard the screaming. Rick stayed with Rebecca for several hours that followed to comfort her as beat out he could. His best attempts to calm her trim, it seemed, were not good enough. At last, the ordeal was over.after ten hours of labour she had finally effrontery birth to a baby boy. As Rick turned to showcase Rebecca, he saw an expression of sadness in her eyes. He knew that she didnt want the baby, that she wasnt capable of providing for it with her waitressing job at a cafe. In the months that followed, Rebecca had a tough cartridge clip trying to earn money to fertilize herself, let alone her intelligence. She turned to drugs to support her depression, except she found that they had no effect. When her parole, who she named William (truncheon), was sixer years old, he started school.There, he was a social outcast no one treasured talk to him. Five to a greater extent years passed before he dogged to quit school and stay at home, he felt that he didnt belong anywhere else. billy started experimenting with cocain when he saw his mother utilise it, but she had been sober for a a few(prenominal) years now. It seemed that for every year she got sober, her sons heart simultaneously grew colder. He joined gangs, baton had built a report card that he could hustle and steal, but he got caught erstwhile and was sent to shut away for three years.During his time at prison, he was working as an informant for the guards on staff in exchange for security measure from all the rapists and paedophiles that roamed the prison. When Billy had gotten out of jail, th e re trustation that he had built up had been crumbled he was kicked out of the gang because the other members were besides suspicious of him. He once over again dropped to the rank of social outcast. In a vain attempt to get buttocks into the gang, he tried to act tough, fighting masses over little things, his attempts went unnoticed.He had turned to interchangeing sallying forth to the people on the streets for money. He sold crack until he had enough money to decease up to cocaine, trying to fulfil the fantasy stuck in his brain. Tired of trying to get plump for into the gang, he pursued a path to be with the hardcore gangs, with the cutthroats and the thugs. that when he stepped up to the gang, they turned him down saying any coward can sell drugs, anyone with a gun can slaughter a man. But only a real thug has stabbed someone work they die, standing(a) in front of them stare straight into their eyes.Feature bind The Plane of the Sleeping Beauty abstractBilly kne w these men were well guarded, that they wanted to test him before business started. They proposed that he kill a woman to commemorate he was cold hearted. Now Billy had a choice between sack dressing to his life or devising money with make men in the higher ranks. His dreams about cars and drugs made him agree, a hardcore gangster is all he ever wanted to be. He met them the bordering week, at night on a lonely street. They drove around the town, slack off while it was raining, smoking and drinking for entertainment. late at night they saw a woman walking alone, coming back on her way home.They quietly got out of the car and followed her, one of the people intent a shirt around her feeling and pushed her onto the floor. Billy picked her up and took her into an unfilled building, forcing her to go up onto the roof. They were yelling at her and coition her to stop moving and screaming, when she wouldnt listen, Billy hit the woman on the face until he had broken her jaw. Bl ood leaking done her clothes, she cried silently, praying to god. They proceeded to abuse her for the next few hours. At the end, one of the people next to Billy pulled out a handgun and gave it to him.They told him that if he killed her, he was guaranteed a spot in the gang. Right before he killed her, he thought about the drugs, women and respect he would get and felt strong standing next to his new gang. He put the gun mighty to her head and pulled back the shirt from her face. What he saw made him cringe and stutter because he was utter(a) into the eyes of his own mother. Rebecca started crying harder than when they were licking her up, broken inside that her own son was going to kill her. His whole realness stopped, he couldnt contemplate what had only if happened.His need to belong to a grouping he barely knew had ripped him apart from the one person he had the strongest bond with, his mother. He turned away from the woman who had once given him birth. As Billy dropped the gun, one of the other men picked it up and prospect her in the head. Billy screamed out to the flip out because he was lonely and scared right then he knew what it meant to be empty and cold and jumped off the roof and died with no soul. After that, the gang members hid their bodies and never verbalise about it, as if they never existed. His finale was much like his birth, painful, shrieking and a mistake.