Nothing Without You

Chapter 1*

"So honey we as we were saying we would really like for you to go to a good collage and well we put you in for a few collages and you got accepted in a major one!!" My mom said. I eyes widened, I didn't want to go to collage I want to go and be an actress, but of course my parents are pushing me to become a lawyer. "You got accepted into Harvard!!!" My dad said "It's in the US but this collage could make you a great lawyer one day!" My mom said. My jaw dropped I was infuriated!! I didn't want to go to collage I didn't want to be a lawyer. But since I am the pussy I am I didn't say that I didn't want top do that I just said a very sarcastic "yay..." 

"But sweetheart the school year starts earlier than what any school does... it starts in a month" They said. That is when I flipped! "What!!!! I wanted to have a nice summer of being free of school and now you are sending me to another one!!!! Are you crazy!!?"   "Do NOT talk to you mother and I like that, we worked very hard to get you into that collage let alone the apartment you are staying in!!!! We should just let you stay in the dorms like everyone else if you keep acting like this!!" My dad said. I was disgusted by how they wanted me gone already.

"Sweetheart this might not be the best time to tell you but you leave in 5 days.... your father and I have already started packing some of your stuff in other rooms." my mom said. I was livid! I did not want to leave now to go to some crappy school. But I don't have the balls to stand up to them again. I was already scared of my father as it is. My mom hated seeing me cry and right now was making it hard for her so she left the room. "Look what you have done to your mother!!! She wanted you to be successful in your life!!!! Your dream of acting will never get you anywhere. You friend Tom was lucky. You have never been lucky!!!!" my dad said. I was crying to the point that I had a hard time breathing because I was trying to keep the tears in. "No!! Stop crying!! your to old to be crying over something like this!! We are your parents and we make the decisions for you!!" He said. I couldn't keep them in any longer so I looked down and nodded and he left the room. Once he did I broke I went to my bed and cried like I never had before. I was frustrated and hurt, and so many more emotions that I just can not explain. 

Its been about an hour and I eventually cried myself to sleep. I heard a knock on the front door, I knew my parents would be asleep by now and so I went to go answer it. I opened the door to see a frightened Tom. He looked at me with so much emotion and he just rapped me in a hug as I started to cry more. "I heard your dad yelling, I don't know what he said but I heard him. I know how much you hate him yelling at you so I had to come over to see if you were okay." He said as he pulled out of the hug. He looked at me and saw how puffy and red my eyes were. "Are you okay?" he asked. All I could do is nod as all the memories from just an hour ago flooded back into my mind.

I had enough strength to say something so that I wouldn't burst and cry in front of him. "Yeah..... I'm okay." I said. He gave me one last hug before saying goodbye and going back to his house. I went back to my bedroom to just cry myself back to sleep. That was before my dad came into my room and said "Shut up!! It's not all about you, stop trying to make people feel bad for you. Grow up!" He said as he slammed my door. I tried to cry quieter but had a hard time so I went into my closet shut my door and started crying again. It got so bad I had a minor panic attack that I was able to control in about an hour. After about an hour of trying to get it to stop, it stopped and then I cried myself to sleep in my closet, and that wouldn't be the first time that happened.

Tom's POV                                                                                                                                                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Harrison and I were talking on my driveway before he left to go home. I was just about to go inside when I heard Aurelia's dad screaming. I didn't hear what he was saying all I heard was that he was yelling. I knew that it was at Aurelia because he doesn't yell at Mrs. Woods. I went inside and waited about an hour after the yelling stopped knowing that her parents would be asleep. I went to go knock on her door and when she answered she looked like she had been crying for hours so I hugged her. I knew that, that was the only thing that she needed at the moment

So to try and make her feel better I said "I heard your dad yelling, I don't know what he said but I heard him. I know how much you hate him yelling at you so I had to come over to see if you were okay." I said that knowing that she was now holding back more tears. So I pulled out of the hug at looked at her, she had big red puffy eyes from crying so much and I said "Are you okay?" And all she did was nod. I have known her for as long as I can remember and so I knew that she was trying to be tough and not cry in front of me. Until she said "Yeah..... I'm okay." I gave her one last hug and then went back to my house and started to wonder what she was crying about. I stayed up all night thinking about what her parents or dad did to make her cry. I am not sure at the moment but I am going to try and find out soon.

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Hey! So this is chapter 1, some of these event have happened to me just not exactly how I wrote it. I can give you this example. One day I don't exactly remember what happened but I was crying and my dad told me that no 15 year old should be crying like this. Or I had a panic attack one day and I have never told my parents and my dad came in to my room and told me to shut up and told that not everything is about me and I should stop trying to get people to feel bad for me. So I went into my closet and cried myself to sleep because I knew that, that was my safe place. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and sorry it was so depressing it will get better later on! Have a great day!

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Makayla T.

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