014. Get mad.

"How dare you!" I growled feeling the rage well up within me. Dad would often fly off the handle about little things when he was drunk and I always hated him for it, but maybe that was just what being a parent was supposed to be. Since Dad wasn't here I'd had to take care of Kouki all the time, and she never treated me as she should. I was her older brother and she should respect me.

Then everything was moving incredibly slow and I felt like a passenger in my own body. I saw my hand fly and I felt her soft cheek collide with my open palm. Her head snapped to the side as she fell to the floor sobbing uncontrollably. My hand was hot with the pleasurable pain as it reddened with hot blood flowing through me.

She looked up at me, eyes flushed full of tears streaming down her cheeks. I could see the angry red pattern of my fingers swelling up on the side of her pretty wet face and perversely it made me feel giddy. No more words were spoken as she just crawled fearfully away from me. I had the power and was her master, "You will never, ever insult me like that again!" I shouted as I walked after her quivering form, lording over her.

Just looking down at her cringing face made me stop. This wasn't right. A man never hurts women, much less his own family. I hesitated, confused as I seemed to come to my senses and she fled into my father's little room and hid, still quietly crying to herself. I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I decided I was just tired and needed some sleep so got in bed and collapsed quickly to the muffled sounds of Kouki's sobs muffled through the thin walls.