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I sat in the living room, staring at my books, trying not to cry on them while Tatsuha kept a comforting hand on my shoulder. Tohma had tried several times to talk to me, but after it was clear I wouldn�t say anything other than informing him Mika had given the book to Mother, he went in search of her.

Mika walked in with Tohma just behind her, and wrapped her arms around me. �Eiri, I�m so sorry,� she whispered. I sat, letting her hold me, but I didn�t hug her back. �I was just worried. I�m sorry, I really am.� I cried on her until my tears were gone again, and she continued holding me afterwards. �Eiri, it�ll be fine. We�ll go to dinner later and then you can open your presents when we get home. It will be just like any other birthday, I promise.� I wanted to believe her, but I couldn�t. At least not fully.

Later on, after Father came home, Mika went to the porch to get Mother so we could get ready and go eat. She came back into the house, looking puzzled. �Father,� she said, �did you see Mother when you came home?�

�She was leaving the porch, heading to the gardens, I think,� he answered.

�Thank you,� Mika said, walking to the back yard. �Mother!� she called. �Moth-!� She stopped, mid-word, and stared. Tohma walked over and I saw his eyes shoot to double their size and one of his hands flew to his mouth. Father joined them, grabbing hold of Tohma to keep from falling.

Tatsuha ran over, wanting to know what was happening. He froze, and then screamed. �Mother, NO!!� I didn�t want to see; didn�t want know. But I couldn�t stop my legs from moving forward to the door.

I looked out and saw Mother bent over one of the gardens. She had a hoe laid beside her and a trowel in her hand. I watched in horror as she ripped up the white iris. She split the stem with the trowel, and shredded the flower. Then she dug up the bulb and smashed it. She repeated the motion to the other three irises in my garden, and then threw down the trowel, stepping away. The ground was littered with the buds of my snapdragons. The baby�s breath was overturned and the daisies had been torn to pieces. The entire garden was wrecked. Tears again swam before my eyes, once more distorting my vision.

�No,� I whispered. �M-my garden, my flowers�you ruined them.� I fell to the ground and began to sob, my chest heaving. Tatsuha put his arms around me, and I just kept crying. I couldn�t hear anything over my wails, but when Tatsuha was shoved away, I looked up in time to see Mother�s hand coming straight for me.

It made contact with my cheek, and her nails scraped me, drawing blood. She hit me again and again, her hands raining down over me, slicing and bruising my skin. I cried harder and louder, and she hit me more. Finally Mika and Tohma pulled her away, but I went on screaming and crying, holding my arms over my head to block the blows that had stopped. Father took me into the house and treated the cuts as Tatsuha watched.

�Father, is Eiri going to die?� he asked.

�No, Tatsuha,� Father said.

�Is Mother going to be taken away?�

�I don�t think so.�

�What about Eiri?�

Father looked at Tatsuha and told him to stop worrying. �I�ll take care of it, okay?� Tatsuha nodded as I hissed quietly, breath pulled in quickly through my teeth at the pain of the rag soaked in peroxide on my cheek. He bandaged me up and sent us to our room. The two of us sat on my bed, listening to the adults arguing.

�Mother, I can�t believe you could do something like that to him; to his garden!� Mika shrieked. �What is wrong with you? All he�s done is found a way to express himself, but you just crushed him!�

�Why?� Father asked. �He tries, but everyone needs an outlet dear. I don�t understand.�

�You didn�t see the book!� she screamed. �This vulgar poetry he writes! Look at it, look at it!!� There was a quiet pause during which Father probably read one of the poems. �Don�t you see?!!�

�I see that he is depressed, suppressed, and scared,� Tohma said quietly.

�Stay out of this! Just because you�re marrying in, doesn�t mean you can get into our disagreements!� Mother exclaimed.

�Tohma, please, just stay out. It will be easier,� Mika begged.

�But he has emotional problems! He needs help from someone, and this household obviously can�t provide that for him!� he argued. �Mika, can�t you understand that?�

�I do, I really do, Tohma, but let me fight my mother right now.�

�But-!�

�Tohma, please!�

�I had to do something to stop him!� Mother cried.

�Dear, what has gotten into you?� Father asked, desperate to know.

Their voices began melding together into a single voice, telling me: �No one cares about you.� I believed it, and it continued to scream the message into my skull as I cried, trying to drown it out but without success.

�He loved that damn garden!� Tohma finally exploded. �And you just ripped it apart, with no thought of your own son! I wouldn�t have believed it yesterday, or a week ago, or even three hours ago! I wouldn�t believe it now if I hadn�t seen you do it with my own eyes! This is an unstable, unsafe and unreliable environment for him, and probably for Tatsuha as well! I want to get them out of here and away from you!�

�That�s not going to happen! And that�s not true! I love Tatsuha, I would never hurt him! He always behaves for his Father and I! He�s a good boy! He�s perfectly safe!�

�But will it stay that way?!� Mika cried. �You didn�t treat Eiri this badly when I was home, and you adored Tatsuha! I was perfectly fine too! But now you beat your oldest son and destroy his possessions! What�s happened?!�

�Eiri has just gotten in the way the past few years, and he has a lot to uphold for the family,� Mother explained. �When he misbehaves, I punish him. Nothing I�ve never done before.�

�Mina, you have gotten a little out of control with the punishments for Eiri lately,� Father said.

�I want him,� Tohma demanded. �Now. I�ve got an apartment in the states. I think he can get along better there than here where kids at school tease and his parents ridicule and abuse him.�

�Tohma�� Mika said. Their voices were finally lowering, and we could no longer hear them over our tears. My head was throbbing and I felt a little dizzy. I closed my eyes for a moment, and when I opened them again, the room was spinning. My breathing quickened, and I screamed in fear before passing out.~
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