The truth

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It was a great Saturday morning...well not really, my report card just arrived today, I know my school did this on purpose so they can ruin everyone's Saturday, well...except for the people who actually studied and did good that is. Yes Ik!! I didn't study, for any of you's that thought I did and got all A's or something...I thank you for your high level of hope towards me.

"Nathan come down for a sec" my dad calls me with a raised voice. "Yeaaa...alrii", I said. I try to stall as much as I could by taking an hour and a half standing in the shower. I finally come out, put on my "disgusted with my results" clothes, to show how dull and sad I feel about getting the bad results even though I haven't seen it yet.

I walk into my living room where I see my dad holding my report card and my mom reading the comments on it. "Did you see what you got!?". I laugh in my head thinking "how can I see them if I just came down right now". I reply "Ya...", I scan through it quickly trying to find the higest result on it, "OHHH I got a B, I didn't even study for that". "WHAT! YOU DIDNT EVEN STUDY", my dad says with anger. "NO NO what I meant was like...I know....it was so easy that I didn't need to study for that". My face heats up. He gives the report card to me and says "look Nathan this is not good enough, you got two B's and rest C's...not even one A, you really have to stop playing around and get serious". I nodded and said "yaa..ok".

Lemme tell you after that conversation with my dad I never felt so hungry in my life, I ran to the kitchen and got me my usual cereal and thought about my future. But then I again I have lods of time left.

A lot of hours later...around 10pm. I was texting madi and it was quite intense, then out of nowhere my mom starts talking to me about what I'm planning to do to bring my grades up; "Nathan..are you serious about this, do you even realise the finals your about to do is your ticket to the career you want". "Mom I just finished studying right now and taking my break, what do you mean I'm not taking this seriously."

Then my dad goes mad and shouts "NATHAN...GET YOUR HEADSET OFF, PUT YOUR PHONE AWAY AND GO STUDY". At this point I have no idea what to do....I take my beats off slowly in confusion but before I could place them on the couch my mom comes over and smashes it. I see it laying on the floor, in pieces, what once costs €280, now worth nothing. That moment when I heard it hit the ground my mind woke up, it's like I came back to reality.

My dad shouts "NATHAN WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS ON YOUR PHONE 24/7, ARE YOU IN LOVE OR SOMETHING".
Ok...when I heard that, it sounded really funny in my head cause why would you ask that question in this situation. I kept quite for a second and shouted back "YES...I AM SO WHAT".

The room was in complete silence....

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