Spike chuckled. "Most kids turn to drugs, alcohol, suicide, and poetry. Not death matches." He smiled and shook his head. "Youth in revolt...What ever will parents do?" He looked down and kicked dirt up. "You know, when I was young, my daddy used to beat me because he didn't know of a better way to raise me. He always wanted me to be just like him." Spike said with a grimace. "He would slap mommy around while I stood in the corner and watched holding Patches, my stuffed bear. I would cry and cry and squeeze Patches as if to squeeze the last tiny drop of hope from him. My daddy would look at me and momma like a couple of rats scurrying around in filth," Spike clemched his teeth. "Daddy thought it would be funny to put a cigar out in my eye!" Spike said, a tone of vicious anger growing in his voice as he spoke while pointing at the eye patch. He looked back down and began to laugh. "One day my mom said she was going out to get cigarettes..." After that, my dad found a knife stabbing through his right eye while little Spike sat over catching him in his sleep. Spike looked up. "Twenty two years...and I'm still waiting for her to come back, Blaire." A tear formed in his eye. "I wish mommy would come back...She'd be safe with me." The tear drop rolled down his face.