You're On Fire Pt 13

But before you can suggest that you go meet him you both hear the muffled, rising voices coming from below; the heating grate in the floor lets you look down into your parents’ bedroom – you don’t know what’s happened but you’ve seen it enough to guess; he’s already got her by the shirt collar, shaking her, and her hands are over her face saying please don’t because he’s about to smack her one.