The Tale of Alex.

He wanders slowly into the study. It's huge, clean walls, dark red ceiling, lighter walls. The room's dark because there's only one light on. It has a huge bookshelves. He looks around at all the books on the shelf, there's psychology, philosophy, physics, maths, english, literature and so much more. It's impressive. He looks at all the papers on the desk are work related. Daddy's on the phone, talking to someone important. He sounds angry, he needs to get something done soon, he has an important meeting to prepare for and doesn't really have any spare time.
But he's done on the phone now.
"Alex, get the hell out of here, I'll be done in an hour, come back then."
So Alex does what he says.
He looks down, walking out the room slowly. He doesn't like daddy being mad at him.
"Close the fucking door behind you will ya?"
Alex does what daddy says again.
Alex likes to please daddy.
He'll come back in an hour, daddy will want to play then, he's sure.

Alex goes down into his room. Daddy doesn't have much space so Alex sleeps in the basement. It's cramped, and cold, and dark. Brick walls. And Alex gets lonely alot, but it's okay, he has his trainset down here, and a few dolls to keep him company.
His bed's in the corner of the room. That's where the dolls are too. There's alot of them and the bed's small so there isn't much space. But he likes the bed anyway. It's better than what he used to have.

Alex remembers, a while ago, a long while ago, so he can only just remember, he used to live with a woman. She wasn't nice to Alex. She used to kick him and tell him he was useless. She used to look for reasons to punish him, and then go out of her way to make it as nasty as possible. To make it hurt.
She's dead now. Alex is happy. He doesn't miss her. He likes daddy.
He starts playing with the train set. He takes one of the dolls and puts it on the track, and sends the train crashing into it. He thinks about the woman again.

Daddy goes away sometimes, a week, maybe two at a time. He has to, for work. Alex doesn't like daddy going away. He gets very lonely without him. It makes him sad.

Alex goes back upstairs to check on daddy.
"I'll be down in five minutes, go get ready."

Alex goes downstairs again, and puts his costume on. Daddy likes it when the zip's closed, he doesn't like Alex talking.
Alex has a surprise for daddy tonight though. He takes what he needs and sits behind the door to wait.
Daddy's longer than five minutes, but it's okay.

He hears daddy coming down the stairs.
"Okay Alex, I'm here now.. Alex..?"
Alex hits daddy in the head with the pole. He doesn't want to hurt daddy, but he has to make sure, so he hits him a few more times in the head.
Daddy's resting now.

Alex puts him on the bed, throwing the dolls out of the way in the process. He doesn't need them now.
He knew daddy had to go away again soon. He had to go away for a long time and leave Alex all alone.
He's not going anywhere now.
Alex looks at daddy and smiles.

But Alex has to go to work soon. He has the night shift and his boss'll get angry if he's late.
So he gets into his uniform, white shirt, black trousers, name-tag. And just as he's about to go upstairs and leave he looks back.
"'Night 'night daddy. I'll be back soon."

They always say that Alex is "a strange one."
He doesn't get what they mean..