My heart hurts. I clenched my fist and beat my chest upon impulse. My eyes swelled and I lost my vision. I frantically paced, zoning out every few seconds.

“How could they do this to me?”

“It’s perfectly normal Ryun, what you’re feeling.” Zod’s helpless attempts to assuage me had been going on since last night.

Quite frankly, I’m not even sure how to manage to make it to this morning. I haven’t slept for twelve hours as such as evident by the protruding red veins upon my corneas.

This is an overwhelming amount of information,” Zod desperately tried to dither my emotions from overriding.

“None of this is okay!” I shouted without even considering the backlash.

“What part of this do you consider normal?” My soul blackened with enraged darkness. I even momentarily became suspicious of Zod and his intentions. It was difficult to think clearly, and I was no longer able to trust anyone or anything.

My entire worlds have been turned upside down. And all I could think was, why me?

Had I not suffered enough?

“Ryun,” He explicitly demanded my adherence, “Trust me when I say, I am going to get you out of this, I promise!”

“You promise?” I rhetorically deign. “You’re in no position to promise me anything!”

What am I saying?

*SLAP*

“Don’t ever talk that way to me again. I raised you!”

The pain was minimal but just enough to grab my attention.

“Aim your antipathy in the right direction boy. I may not be your father, but you are my child and don’t you ever forget that.”

I quieted, then slowly backed away to sit down on the edge of my bed. Facedown between my hanging limbs, I was still aghast.

“Now, I know that this is really unfair of me to ask. But you must get over this quickly. If you alert anyone, you won’t make it to Monday.”

I wanted to do as he said. I knew within my heart, if I knew nothing else, that he loved me. 

I wanted to listen. 

I wanted to calm down. 

I wanted to be brave.

But last night keeps manifesting in my brain. I feel overwhelmed by deluge mayhem.

LAST NIGHT

Saturday 9:30 PM

"Who's there?" I called out from my bed.

*Knock Knock*

The banging continued. I looked up at the clock to see it was already half past 9; 28 minutes beyond my curfew. I became alarmed. I reached to my chair of trousers and quickly drew one over my boxers. I cautiously stepped towards the door and opened it.

“Yes… Zod, what are you doing here?”

He put on a big grin holding a stack of books under his arm.

“Pretend to be expecting me…” he whispered.

I instantly deduced that something was up and started playing along.

“Oh, I almost forgot that you’d promised to take these for me!” I gave out loudly for the camera to hear.

“Yes, I know that you must have been asleep by now, but you made such a fuss about them at training today.”

After our theatrical performance, he stepped inside my room and wasted no time to get to the point. Sadly, I couldn’t make sense the nonsense that he jabbered.

“Ryun… no time…must go!”

It was all jumbled and fast!

“Zod, hold on just a minute, you need to catch your breath,” I cautioned.

I managed to get him to slow down after taking some deep breaths.

“What’s going on?”

As he pulled closer to me, he took out a picture from behind him and stretched it forward, the lids of my eyes peeled and hung loose and my sockets expanded in incredulity.

“Ryun, these are your real parents”