“You shouldn’t have done that. Daddy’s going to be very angry” Jaime said with a sadistic joy in her voice. Zoe remained silent, too angry to provide a response. Jaime took Zoe into her room and parked her by a window, before leaving and closing the door. Once Zoe heard the footsteps fade away, she began wrestling against the restraints, before stopping when she saw the door open. Gary and Michael walked out. Once they were away from the home, Gary began beating Michael.

“STUPID! BITCH! HOW DARE SHE?!” Gary screamed as he took his frustrations out of Michael. Michael cowered to the ground and curled up

“WE GO THROUGH ALL THIS AND SHE SPITS IN OUR FACES?!” Gary continued kicking at Michael. After a while, Gary calmed down and walked back into the home. Michael remained curled up, not moving.

The door to Zoe’s room opened and in walked Melissa.

“I hope you’re happy with what you did. Normally we would have desert and let you stay up, but now you’re not getting any” Melissa said as she walked up to Zoe

“Fuck you and fuck your deserts!” Zoe screamed at Melissa

“One day I am going to scrub your mouth with soap if you keep talking like that” Melissa warned Zoe.

“It’s bedtime for you know, please remain still”. Melissa said

Zoe was slightly confused until she heard a packet being opened. Melissa grabbed Zoe’s face and kept her still. Zoe noticed the needle coming towards her and tried to move but couldn’t. The needle pricked Zoe and after a few seconds, Zoe started to lose consciousness, before falling asleep.

When Zoe woke up, she was a bit woozy. It took her a few seconds to realize where she was. She was in a different room, that had plastic on the walls and floor. Zoe was still in her wheelchair, strapped tightly. Zoe started to move around but she still couldn’t break free.

“Oh good, you’re awake” Jaime said from a corner in the room. She was standing over a table.

“Mommy and Daddy are still angry at you, so I decided to keep you company. Let’s have some fun!” Jaime said and turned around. Jaime was still wearing her dress, but now she had an apron on and was wearing black gloves. In her hands was a clipper.

“Get the fuck away from me you motherfucker!” Zoe said, with fear in her voice.

“The game is real simple, you’ve played hangman, right? Except instead of a stickman, it’s your fingers. Each word you get wrong, you lose a finger. If you keep getting them wrong, we’ll have to move a bit up” Jaime said with a wink

Jaime walked behind Zoe and turned her around to face a blackboard. On the board were three underlines and a drawing of a cat.

“The first round is very simple, I even gave you a hint. You can guess a letter or say the word” Jaime explained

“Cat, I guess the word cat” Zoe said, fidgeting in her chair

“Oh sorry, I drew the wrong animal. The answer was dog”

“No, NO!” Zoe began screaming and fighting her restraints.

“Shhhh” Jaime said and put a rag in Zoe’s mouth, quieting her. “Trust me, you’d be surprised how loud people can get”

Jaime put the clipper onto Zoe’s left hand’s ring finger. Jaime used all her strength to cut her finger right off.

“MPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPHHHHHHHHH!” Zoe screamed through her rag as blood began spraying over the floor, as well as onto Jaime and Zoe’s arm.

“Jaime, please come to the dining room” Melissa screamed.

“Coming mother!” Jaime replied. “See you in a bit, don’t die now” Jaime said and put the clippers back onto the table, before opening the door and leaving the room. Zoe continued shaking in pain, her arms shaking wildly. The blood managed to spray onto the straps and Zoe noticed she was able to slowly slide her wrist through. After a few more twists and turns, Zoe was able to slide her left hand through the leather straps. She quickly unstrapped her neck, and then her arms and legs before rolling off the chair. She laid on the plastic floor and cried as the blood slowly stopped jetting out. Zoe took the rag out of her mouth and wrapped it around her stub. The rag went from white to dark red almost immediately.

“Motherfucker” Zoe quietly screamed to herself as she got back up. She was still a bit wobbly but could stand upright properly. Zoe walked over to the table and saw a few more tools on it. She picked up the clippers and waited by the side of the door and listened closely. She heard footsteps approaching, before the sound of the door opening.

“Good news, mother says you can have dinner tonight if you behave-“ Jaime stopped when she realized that the wheelchair was empty. Before she could turn around, Zoe jammed the clippers through Jaime’s back, silencing her. Zoe slowly lowers Jaime to the ground and pulls the clippers out of her back. The slices in her back begin to overfill with blood and a small puddle forms around her. Zoe turns and heads out.

Zoe steps into the hallway and begins slowly creeping down the hall. She notices a door is slightly opened and goes in. Inside the room, Melissa is sitting at a make-up table, applying some face paint to herself.

“So, is the guest going to behave?” Melissa asks, still focused on what she was doing. Zoe steps behind her and Melissa notices it is Zoe. Melissa gets up and turns around but before she can react, Zoe uses and stabs them through Melissa’s chest. Zoe slams Melissa into the mirror, breaking it. Zoe pulls the clippers out and grabs Melissa’s face, slamming her into the mirror and grinding her face into the broken mirror.

“AHHHHHH!” Melissa’s screaming gets higher and higher until she is no longer making any noise as her face gets shredded, painting the broken mirror red. Zoe let’s go of her face and drops her to the floor, before picking up the clippers and stabbing her multiple times in the chest and stomach. Zoe gives a final stab as Melissa stops moving. Zoe waits and once she notices that Melissa isn’t moving, she leaves the room.

As she goes down the hallway, she can hear Gary grunting and Michael whimpering. The closer she gets, the more she can make out the words.

“You, stupid idiot!” Gary screams as he lashes Michael with a belt in the corner of the living room. Michael has a string wrapped around his throat, keeping him crouched down.

Zoe opens the clippers and slowly creeps up behind Gary, planning to impale him. Zoe drives it into his back and lodges it firmly in him.

“ARRRRRGH!” Gary screams and turns around. Zoe loses grip of the clippers.

“YOU!” Gary screams when he notices Zoe is walking freely. “THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY US?! BY-“ Gary rips the clippers out of his back and throws it onto the ground

“STABBING ME IN THE BACK. MELISSA, JAIMIE GET IN HERE!” Gary screams and waits. Zoe slowly begins backing away.

“GET THE FUCK HERE!”

“They’re not coming you sadistic fuck!” Zoe screams back at Gary

“WHAT?!” Gary asks, before he slowly realizes what she meant.

“You’re fucking family won’t be having dinner anytime soon” Zoe said, and cracked a sly smirk

“YOU BITCH!” Gary screamed in anger and charged at Zoe. Gary grabbed Zoe by the throat and slammed her into the wall near the fireplace. Gary was slowly choking Zoe to death and Zoe was grabbing at the wall, hoping to find something to grab. She was able to pick up a fire poker and jammed it into Gary’s throat, making him weaken his grasp enough for Zoe to break free and crawl away. Gary pulled the poker out of his throat and threw it away, hunched over as he tried to breathe again. Zoe ran over to Gary and picked up the clippers, before snipping the rope free. Zoe turned and charged at Gary with the clippers again. Gary grabbed both blades with his hands and yanked the clipper away from Zoe, before pulling it apart and breaking it. Gary threw the broken pieces onto the ground.

“I AM DONE, YOUNG LADY!” Gary scream and ran at Zoe again. Zoe wasn’t able to move out in time and Gary tackled her to the ground, chocking her again with much more force. Zoe was about to lose consciousness until Michael tackled Gary off of her. Gary rolled to the side and Zoe got back up, trying to inhale air again.

“MICHAEL!” Gary screamed as he got up. Michael quickly runs over to Gary and jumps at him, jamming his nails into his throat, before hopping onto Gary’s back and placing him in a chokehold. Gary’s hands went straight to Michael’s and he tried prying them off but Michael’s grip was far stronger than Gary’s. Zoe quickly moved into the hallway, getting away from them. When Gary wasn’t able to shake off Michael, he began throwing himself into the walls. The house began violently shaking as Gary slammed his back into the walls, but Michael wouldn’t let up. Eventually Gary began to slow down, slowly losing to being chocked and bleeding out. In a final attempt, Gary threw himself backwards onto the dinner table, breaking it in half and falling onto the floor, breaking some of the wood. Zoe ran out and picked up one half of the clippers, before running over to Gary and jamming it into his eye socket as hard as she could. Zoe took out the blade and began repeatedly stabbing his stomach.

“FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU!” Zoe screamed with each stab. After a few minutes of stabbing, Zoe stabbed the knife into his head and left it there, before getting back up and slumping against the wall. Michael pushed Gary off him and dragged himself to the nearby wall. The two sat in silence, watching Gary’s corpse lie still. They looked at each other, then back at the body as the only noise that filled the room was their heavy breathing.

Zoe slowly got up and began making her way to the front door, but stopped when she heard Michael cough loudly. She turned and he pointed to something behind her. She turned and saw a bunch of hooks with keys of them. She turned back and Michael made a ‘pointing up’ gesture. Zoe grabbed the highest key and turned to leave the house. Before she left, she turns to Michael one final time.

“Thank you” Zoe said, completely deadpanned and not having anymore energy.

Michael nods back at her and does a thumbs up before passing out. Zoe leaves the home and uses the key to unlock the red pick-up truck in the driveway. Zoe starts the truck and begins driving off.