Love and Depression

The three year old just sat there in the hallway watching her daddy drink a beer with her round blue eyes.
" Daddy?"
The man looked at the child and walked away into the living room. The child fallowed. The game was on so the man sat in his chair with his beer and started yelling at the T.v. This has been the ritual for five weeks now. The man comes home from the bar, grabs a beer from the fridge, sits in his chair and watches T.v. He totally ignores the child and ignores the woman. As the door opens and the woman walks in the man as quickly as a cheetah jumps out of the stairs and grabs the woman.
The woman screams no but the man dosnt care and starts shaking the woman and dragging her by the arm to the bedroom. The child in the hallway starts crying but the woman looks at child with her reinsuring eyes. The man slams the bedroom door shaking the whole house. The little child hold her favorite orange stuffed bunny close to her as she heard her mother scream. Every night when the man took the woman to the room and the child heard the screams she would hold her bunny close before cautiously approaching the door. Usually the screaming stops when she got to the door and she would stay outside the door for ten minutes before crawling back to her room convinced that her parents were asleep. As the little child approched the room this time the door was swung wide open and the man walked out. He looked angry and was nude except for a red robe. The woman ran out after him in a silver night gown and a black eye. The child frightened backed up to the wall and curled up with tears running down her face. The man started screming at the woman again and the woman yelled back. They screamed and hissed at eachother untill the man kicked the woman down and started punching her. The child looked up and ran to her mommy trying to help her but when her little hand touched her mothers sholder the man looked up and punched his daughter in the jaw. The little girl flew back and slamed her head on the side of the dining table from the blow and started crying. The woman got up and pushed the man off of her and grabbed her child. The man tried to grab the woman again but she was too quick and locked her and the child in the child's room. The man punched and kicked at the door trying his hardest to get in. The child cried into her mother's sholder as the mother blocked the door. Suddenly the banging stopped. It was silent for ten minutes before they heard the front door open and than slam close. For another ten minutes the two girls waited listening for any sound before they walked out into the living room. The T.v was still on and there was glass everywhere from when the child slamed into the dining room table knocking glasses off. The little girl looked at her mother than at the front door.
" Daddy?"
The woman looked at the child and held her close. They both started crying into the night.