It was 9:30 p.m. The doorbell awoke me, I guess I'd fallen asleep while waiting. I let my mother in, she held a bouquet of roses in her hands. "Are those from your new boyfriend?" I asked. "His name is Daniel, Brianna. Could you be a little happier for me? I'm finally finding a little love in my life and then you start judging me." Love? What does she know about love? She's had 26 boyfriends in the 13 years her and my father have been separated for, those relationships lasted weeks if not days. "Sorry, hope this one lasts more than a month!" I said sarcastically. "Ha ha." She fake laughed. I wanted to bring up the phone calls but I didn't know how to. So I just spat out "Dad called me today." I said blatantly. My mothers eyes widened. "Father as in the one who left us 13 years ago..?" She asked uncertainly. "Yeah, that's the one." I said. My mother looked shocked, as if she'd never expected the day to come. Which she probably didn't. "Well.. What did he say?" She asked. "You won't even believe the garbage he was telling me! He was saying how he always wanted to keep in touch with me and spend time with me but you cut off all our connections and were determined to keep us apart. I mean listen to the idiot, blaming you for his mistakes." I looked over to my mother who had look on her face as if she'd just been exposed. I knew it, it's just as I feared inside of me, he was right! My mother is the reason I grew up without a father, and that's something I can never forgive her for. I looked at her in disgust while tears rushed down my face. "Y-you are the reason I grew up with one parent, why would you do this to me?" I said in tears. "Honey.." She started "DONT CALL ME HONEY. You disgust me." I shouted at her. "I-I'm sorry, I wanted what was best for you and I thought I could find you better than him." I wiped my tears and realized my makeup was coming off, this was terrible. It took me an hour this morning but I guess this was an exception. "Yet here we are, 13 years and 26 boyfriends later and you haven't found anyone better.. All you've managed to do is ruin my life and leave me without a father." I waited for her to reply but she couldn't, she was speechless. It was silent until she finally spoke up, "All I've ever wanted was for you to be happy and have a good life." She said as I watched a tear stream down her face. In order for me to be happy I needed to have my father in my life, instead she lied to me and said he didn't want me when he actually did. "I'm so over this conversation, I'm not ruining my fresh makeup." She said. We were so alike in some ways but I wouldn't do this to my child and I'll probably never understand why she did it to me. "All I can say is, I made 13 Father's Day cards and none of them were to my actual father because you made me believe that he didn't love me." I said as I went upstairs.
