• As I pulled up to my new high school I was nervous. I'm getting ahead of myself, my story began about a month ago, my foster mom and dad were cruel and merciless, they were drunk old assholes, but to there workers and everyone it seemed they were the perfect family. well they would get drunk and beat me, and do this every night. I never knew my real family I was just found on a doorstep. One day my father came home really drunk after a hard day of work, called me to his office “ come... look what I have here son...” he calls out with strain in his voice. As I get closer I can smell the whiskey on his breath, “I get a new toy” he reaches under his arm and pulls out a taser gun. “ real cheap to, only 100 dollars, off the black market you see. the reason for this is it is one of the strongest taser ever built, can melt skin by it's shock” I knew my father was going off the deep end “ dad wa-” I begin to say “oh me and your mother will have a blast tonight” he has a dark look in his eyes, “me and your mother are going to play a game, a game of life and death, for you.” he gets up to walk around the room, suddenly my mother stumbles through the door with a bottle of wine clung to her hands. This was beyond there usual torture they used. Over the years they had done everything to me from broken boned to brain damage, they called me a klutz at the hospital because my parents made my injuries look like accidents. My body was weak and I was starting to give up on life. Suddenly I was rushed back to my current situation. “now you have a five minutes to run, stay in the house and you will survive, try to get out and you will die.” So now my parents were going to hunt me like an animal. I just hoped my end would come fast. I ran to the window not caring about the time I had left to live. I look in the distance and see a crackle of fireworks. “of course!” I said to myself “fourth of July, on this day more than four hundred years ago the founding fathers made there stand and gained there independence from Britain. Well its time I made mine.” the neighborhood always holds a barbecue, if I can make it there I can reveal my parents deception, looking out the second story window that was in my bedroom. I could see the guests start to arrive there. “Joseph! Time to play!” I see him coming from behind and I start to sprint toward the window “ where do you thing your going?!” mom calls next to dad. I dive through the window as a shatter of glass erupts around me. I crash on the ground as glass continued to rain around me. I start sprinting toward the party with my parents trailing behind me. I start to see people turn there heads toward the commotion unfolding. “help!” I call to them with hope that they see my parents for what they truly are. Mom fires her taser as I fell the electricity go through my body. All my muscles tense up and I feel my body collapsing “no, (pant) I must tell them, I MUST LIVE!” I catch myself and continue to run. I see all eyes are on me and my escape to freedom. I make it there as I feel my legs give out. I sit down and spot my mom and dad being checked by a police officer. “ hay why don't you just raise your son your way and mine my way!” I here dad call to the officer. In the corner of my eye I see him turn the switch to full power, Mom as well. “look out!” I call to the officer. he dives away as Dad and mom both fire shots into me. i feel my body losing control, as i see mom and dad being tackled by the neighbors and the officer. I blacked out and felt my body sink away into the afterlife. I see darkness and a man in a black cloak. All around me I see medical equipment “ ...live.... you will live...” he says in a voice more of a growl than talking. He takes out his hand and when I shake it I realize it's a claw. I feel different and stronger, like I have the universe at my fingertips, then I black out. When I woke up I looked up at doctors looking at me as if they saw a ghost. “good lord he's alive” one called “where am I?” I asked weakly. “let me explain” the police officer from the party came forward. “you were hit with about three hundred thousand volts of electricity. Now a regular taser fires about fifty thousand that's more than six times the normal power, and for a teenager. Looks over my records, “six foot one with brown hair and brown eyes, but what scientists are amazed about is that you were dead on spot but when we came to the hospital your pulse was stronger than ever. Most say a miracle occurred, no damage and no sickness. Your one in a billion you know that. But now here's the fact, you got to appear in court no body knows your alive and they got enough money to wipe the charges away. they have already been cleared with murder by bribing the jury, but the weapon assault charges will bee seen by a lower court, no jury, and if you make it we can press additional charges.” To be continued...