Locked in the Dark Room
The door slammed shut.
Darkness swallowed the small space.
Eric slid down the wall, his knees pulled to his chest, his breath shaking.
Finally, when the silence became too heavy, the tears spilled.
Eric: "Why… why does my life have to be like this…?
What did I even do…?"
His voice broke, echoing helplessly in the empty room. 😭
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Eric's POV — His Pain
"My mother…"
He wiped his tears with the back of his trembling hand.
"She wasn't always like this."
He remembered pieces—broken memories that stabbed like glass.
Before he was even born, she had been dragged into a world she never escaped.
His father never loved her; he owned her.
Controlled her.
Ruined her.
And when he died, she was too far gone—
lost in addiction, rage, and grief.
At first, she only screamed.
Then she hit.
Then… worse.
Eric tightened his arms around himself, heart pounding.
"I was only five. I didn't understand why she hurt me."
He swallowed painfully.
"When I finally did understand… I felt like something inside me shattered."
He tried to push her away.
Tried to stop her from touching him.
Tried to make her see him as a child, not a replacement for the man who destroyed her.
She only hurt him more for resisting.
Eric: "That pain… I'd rather get hit a hundred times than feel that again…"
Tears streamed faster. 🥲
He felt trapped.
He felt dirty.
He felt broken.
And he felt one thing more than anything—
Hatred.
Not toward himself.
Toward the woman his mother blamed for everything.
"Amber Devis."
He whispered the name like a curse.
"My mother told me you're the one who ruined us…
That you took everything from us…"
His fist clenched, knuckles turning white.
Eric: "Because of you… my life is like this.
Because of you… she became like this.
I'll make you pay." 😡
His tear‑filled eyes burned with a pain he couldn't control.
"I won't forgive you."
"I won't let you live peacefully."
Even as he cried—
even as his small body trembled in fear—
the hatred planted by his mother
kept growing.
And somewhere in that darkness…
he truly believed his suffering was Amber's fault.
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