Carters house 5:00pm 3rd POV

Carter walks inside his front door as quietly as he can hoping he can sneak in past his mom. His hopes are crushed when he walking through the living room and sees his mom sitting patiently on the couch. She looks pissed, he can see it.

“Hey....mom...” he says trying to sound calm but he could hear the fear in his voice. His mom stands up and starts walking up to him. He instinctively backed up as she got closer. Her hair was so brown it was almost black. And her eyes.... her eyes weren’t even a color, they were just black. Or at least that’s what they looked like. To normal people she looked “nice” you know, approachable. But to carter she looked terrifying. She was only nice to her friends but behind closed doors was a nightmare.

She stoped when she was right in Carter’s face and had a look that was kinda unreadable but if you looked close enough you could see the anger in her eyes. “Your late.’’ Was all she said.

“Im sorry. I lost track of time and max was helping me with my homework and I just forgot.” After he said that her expression completely changed from unreadable to complete and total anger. “I told you to be home bye 4:00. You knew i had somewhere to be!” She yelled and it came out almost in a sneer. Carter flinched and backed up some more trying to distance himself from her as much as possible. “I-I’m sorry! i thought i had an alarm set to leave on time!” He said tying to defend himself. She backed up getting ready to walk away, “your grounded.” She said in the proses.

“What!? But it was an accident! It’s not like i was playing! I was doing homework!”

“You are grounded and that is the end of it.”

“But-“

“Nope. You will go to school, and come strait home. There will be no phone and no going over to friends until i say so. Do u understand me?”

“But max-“

“I don’t care! You wont be going to his house again until i say! Got it?”

Cater scoffed at her declaration. Max was his best friend and his mom was basically putting him on house arrest. And “when she says” is forever. He wasn’t having this, not without a fight.

“This is bullshit! I didn’t do anything wrong! You cant jus-“ he was cut off when his mom all of a sudden hit him. Wasn’t the first time, but it still surprised him when it happened. He put his hand on his cheek with a look on his face that was a mix of sad and surprised. Hers was pure anger though. “You will NOT talk back to me. Do you understand me?” She said almost through her teeth.

Not trusting his voice to speak actual words, all he did was nod. Tears threatened to fall but he held them back. She was always like this, he didn’t understand why but she was. You’d think he’d be used to how she was, but he wasn’t. It got to him every time.

She held out her hand, which made him flinch. “Phone.” Was all she said. Reluctantly, Carter handed it to her, his hand shaking in fear.

She walked away to the front door. “Go to you room and go bed. I don’t want to see you up when i get back, got it?” She said as she stood in the open doorway.

‘Mm-hmm” was all he get out and after that she left. Cater tore up the stairs and slammed his door closed. He laid on his bed trembling from what had happened. He was so depressed lately. It was always so heavy and it made him just want to disappear.

To be continued...