Mommie's Basement

(August 14th, 2012)
I can’t get those images out of my head. I need to get it off my chest. I’m writing down sort of a memoir about what has happened in the past month with this horrible DVD. It all started a month ago, July 12th 2012. I got off work and thought to myself, my daughter Jamie loves Caillou. I don’t understand how she enjoys that show. Caillou is such a brat and I really hate him but, I love my daughter. 
So I decided to get another Caillou DVD to watch. I went to the local Goodwill to get the DVD (money’s getting pretty tight lately). I entered the Goodwill and started wandering around and found some DVD’s. My eyes bolted to what looks like a Caillou DVD. It’s a transparent DVD case with some roughed up corners and some wording on it. I have bad eyes so I pull out my reading glasses and I see, “Unaired Season 1 Caillou Episode.” I thought to myself, “Hey this could be valuable and I could let Jamie watch it.” So I pick it up and bring it to the cashier and he looks down at the case and looks back up at me and says “Sir there is no price tag on this. But, it’s late so I’ll just give it to you for five bucks.” I said thank you and I was on my way home. (What a mistake it was.) *sigh* 
So anyways, when I was getting home I could already see Jamie waiting outside the house for me. She knew what the car sounded like so she always waited on the patio for me to come home. I pull up to the driveway and as soon as I get out of the car Jamie runs up and I give her a big hug lifting her from the ground. I tell her, “Hey sweetie, I have a gift for you!” Almost immediately she’s ecstatic. She’s asking, “What is it! What is it! What is it! What is it!” I pulled the DVD from behind my back and she knew instantly. “Daddy lets watch it together!” I say to her “Sorry sweetie I have to make dinner and take a shower. After that, I’m all yours.” She runs over to the TV and puts it in and the normal intro starts playing so I just leave and take a shower. When I come back I start dinner. Tonight I’m making alfredo ravioli with sausage. After some time passes I hear a noise coming from the living room but I just brush it off as the dog. When I’m done with the food I have both plates in both hands carrying them to the living room. I turn the corner and I see a blank TV screen and Jamie bawling her eyes out rolling around the carpet. I drop the plate and as they shatter on the ground and I run over to Jamie and I ask her what is wrong. She doesn't respond at all and just keeps crying. I try to calm her and after about an hour I pick her up and bring her to her bed. I try my best to get her to sleep and eventually she does. Worried, I grabbed a sleeping bag and a pillow and slept on her floor that night. 
When I woke up I noticed she wasn't in her bed. I got up and looked down stairs and saw her on the couch with her school bag. She looks ready to go to school. As I’m going down the stairs I ask, “Jamie, what was wrong last night?” She responded with, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” I see that she is occasionally twitching. I say to Jamie, “I remem-” She cuts me off and says “Come on dad! I’m gonna be late!” She grabs my wrist and starts walking us out the door. We get in the car and I go to her school to drop her off. Me seeing my daughter walk into school and being teased for twitching so much. I drove a couple blocks down to an empty parking lot. I turned off the car and immediately burst into tears. Seeing her like that for some reason just hit me hard. After about 20 minutes of crying I sit up and drive home still wiping the tears off my face. 
When I get home I start walking to my room to get ready for work. As I go through the living room I glance at the DVD sitting next to the TV. I think to myself “Let's see what traumatized my daughter.” I put the DVD in the disk drive and the DVD goes in and I see in white text “Unaired Episode- Caillou, Mommie’s Basement” I think to myself, what could this be? It starts off with the normal Caillou intro. (I still hate it) After the intro end it cuts to black for a few seconds and then shows Caillou sleeping. I see him waking up and hearing his dad say “Caillou! Get the hell down here and make your sister breakfast!” Caillou walks down stairs and his dad gives him a dirty look. Caillou gets on his step stool and grabs the cereal box. He steps down and moves the step stool but accidentally bumps into his father and he spills his coffee on himself and Caillou. His dad screams, “You disappointment! I never even loved you in the first place! You’re more of a butler than a son anyways.” Caillou just stands there with a blank expression for about 10 seconds before he totally melts down. His dad says as he picks up the broken glass, “You know, I’m gonna teach you about respect!” He stands up and unbuckles his belt. He yelled “Caillou, I’ll give you a 3 second head start to hide!” Caillou bolts it and eventually finds his way to the basement door. He never went down there because it’s so dark. But he’d rather be in the dark than be a victim of his father’s belt. So Caillou opens the door and slowly creeps down the stairs. Every step is creaking and louder than the next. He sees some light and goes a bit faster and sees his mother with a candle in her right hand and a knife in the other. Caillou looks down and sees a nearly totally skinned body of somebody. Still screaming, he switches on the lights and sees a long row of skinned human corpses covered in stab wounds. His mother yells “What the hell are you doing down here! Who am I kidding, I know you’re just a dumb kid that can’t read or listen to his parents! Now get out!” The screen goes blank and I start to get up from the couch terrified but oh no, there’s more. It cuts to Caillou’s door and pans through the door and reveals a very graphic picture of Caillou hanging from a rope. Then the screen goes blank and the DVD comes out. After the screen goes blank I see my reflection on the dark TV screen. It is an expression only defined by one word. Why? 
I’ve been seeing things like Caillou, his father or his mother wandering around the house. I eventually decided to get help. I went to the hospital with Jamie and told the doctor everything. The only thing that came out of his mouth was, “You two need therapy. Badly.” I tell him “But doctor, I can’t afford therapy.” The doctor responds with, “With what I’ve heard I’ll give your daughter therapy for free.” I say, thank you so much!” I’ve been doing therapy with my daughter for about a month but we are still hallucinating images of Caillou hanging and the rows of skinned bodies. The doctors tried to prescribe some meds and they sort of helped. 
(August 20th, 2012)
Jamie asked me a question recently, she asked me, “Why did that happen to us Daddy?” I then responded to her in the most honest way possible, “I don’t know Jamie, I guess some people just like to watch those kinds of things.” Jamie asks why and I immediately respond with, “Because the world is sick Jamie. And good people like us are sometimes victims of the world’s disease. But Jamie, as long as you live I want you to remember one thing, just because there is evil in this world like that, THING, that was shown to us by some horrible disgrace of a coincidence, the world still has good in it. Now I love you, goodnight.” That night my daughter, at seven years old, jumped off of our roof and killed herself. Her soul was so pure but the sickness of this world took my Jamie from me. And tonight, I will reunite myself with my daughter, because a world without her is a world without joy.
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