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Episode 34: Responsibility

February 11, 2020Fictionthe-daily-drabble

Responsibility His parents trusted him enough not to hire a babysitter that night. He’d never been trusted like that before, and that night he sat on his soft bed, eating ice cream from the carton, watching movies featuring animated and forbidden nakedness on his computer, feeling happier than he had ever been before. With his headphones in, he didn’t hear the glass shatter. Didn’t hear the footsteps. He didn’t notice the man noticing him. Didn’t hear the struggle down the hall. When the boy’s parents got home, his little sister was gone, and he began his life as the prime suspect.

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