“I was gone for five minutes! What happened here?” I asked in disbelief, I couldn’t comprehend the scene that I just saw, my room was a mess. My kids gaze at each other, none of them respond to me. “You two lost the ability to talk?” I said frustrated by their inability to admit their mistake “well then, I’ll give you two some punishments, you are both grounded for a month!”. My punishment upset a...

I was gone for

Five minutes

Or five years

Why are you on the floor

With hearts shattered around you

Mascara running down your face

Laying in a fetal position

Sobbing all night long

Why are you such a mess

Im going to make you look your best

I’ll clean up your broken hearts

Till it feels brand new again...

“I was gone for five minutes!

What happened here?”

Well, I ripped his eyes out.

I slit his throat open.

What’re you worried about?

It didn’t hurt him anyways.

At least not as much as it hurt

When he shattered my heart.

Broke me and painted me

back again, like a piece of art.

I ate his organs like spaghetti too.

Red sauce is running down my chin.

Fingers are sticky like smeared honey.

Tastes ...

“I WAS GONE FOR FIVE MINUTES! WHAT HAPPENED HERE?”

“I’M SORRY! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!”

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN AN ACCIDENT??? THE ENTIRE HOUSE IS DESTROYED!”

“I KNOW, BUT THERE WAS A SPIDER!”

“ARE YOU KIDDING ME! A SPIDER?”

“IT WAS HUUGE!”

“THAT IS NOT A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO LIGHT THE HOUSE ON FIRE!”

“WELL I’M SORRY! I PANICKED AND COULDN’T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE!”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?”

“YES!! YOU...

“I was gone for five minutes! What happened here?”.

I scanned the room, doubtfully that I could actually get an answer.

Almost all of the cushioned seats were on fire surround by at least an inch of water flooding the area. There was a hole in the wall and a hole in the ceiling, big enough to leave just the edges to justify calling them a wall and a ceiling still.

I stared down the two teens ...

“I leave you two alone for five minutes! What the hell happened?”

“Vincent happened,” Gage said angrily. Vincent only laughed, which resulted in Gage kicking him. Vincent was lying on the ground with Gage’s foot holding his head down. Holding back his arm with his hands. I sighed, of course leaving these two behind was a bad idea.

“I just wanted a hug,” Vincent said, still laughing...

“I was gone for five minutes! What happened here? And what the hell did I just witness?!”

“Me and the homies got bored.”

“I think you can figure out what happened”

“When you said you were hanging out with your friends, I did not think you meant a make out session.”...

I was gone for five minutes! What happened here?

You know what it feels like when someone punches you square in the heart? Shocked, lost, head swirling, mind swimming…’why did I deserve that?’ You ask yourself over and over. Trying to figure it out, recounting every conversation, recognizing you stuffed your intuition when it was screaming ‘something isn’t right!!!’

‘Would they purposefully tr...

“I was gone for five minutes what happened in here!” The mothers eyes widen after seeing her twin daughters covered in feathers, glue and even glitter. The first twin speaks up “we were playing and it sorta… kinda got out of hand” the second twin nods in agreement. “It’s arts and crafts how does it get out of hand?” The mom says scrubbing the floor violently. “We don’t know” the twins say at the s...

“I was gone for five minutes! What happened here?”. Kelly says yelling in surprise. Kelly looks at her older brother Max with food all over him and sees food around and behind him. “Look, the little kids told me I was at sports and can’t play videos games good and told them their wrong, so I throw at them to challenge and-“. Kelly cut him off and says “You had a food fight!.” “Yeah” Max says in a ...