Cling to your lonesome folly...

Okay. I come home from school, and there's a newspaper in the mailbox. Normal enough. On the front page, it's talking about those two boys who were locked up in makeshift cages and such. After three years, justice is finally being done. The "parents" (biologically their aunt and uncle) pleaded guilty, thank goodness. Can you imagine if they hadn't? After what those boys had been through, having to testify about it, basically being forced to relive it? I know I wouldn't be able to do that. What really hits home to me is the fact that those boys, they're my age, and are from the Durham area. I mean, would you ever expect something like that to happen so close to home? You always hear of things like that happening, but usually they're pretty unrelated to your life. Not that this isn't overly directly related to me, but still, it scares me.

I mean, everything leaves a mark on us, effects the way we act, think, are. The good and the bad. We've basically all had times that we've been scratched and bruised in a way that will never completely heal, but it'll usually become only a thin, tiny, barely noticeable scar. We all joke about being majorly scarred for life, but I doubt any of us ever will be thank goodness, unlike these boys. Can you even imagine going through what they were forced to endure? It had been happening for around 10 years when they were finally freed from the torture.

And then, I re-read one of my fave fics: The Child Who Suffers It's a great story... definitely worth reading. Mind you, for the non anime fans, it is a fanfic, from the Yu-Gi-Oh realm to be exact, but it's AU (alternate universe) and it's so sweet... if a little angsty with what the boys have gone through before the story starts.

And that's my rant for today.

( So now, some quizzy-ish thingies )