Her Destiny

Ch. 2

Build a man a fire, and a man will be warm for a day.
Set the man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchet

That class was hard. The teacher, the nerds dad was singling me out most of the class, 'Marcey what is this, what's it used for, what do you not do when you use it?'

After about fifty five minutes, the class bell rang finally. I went through the rest of the classes in a breeze.

I walk out of school expecting my mom to pick me up, I see my dad's van instead, I know the answer to the party question. With my mom it would have been a maybe, but with my dad here, its defiantly a no. I'll give it a try anyways; sometimes I can sway him with some whiny attitude or sad eyes.

" Hey daddy" acting sweet at first.

He seems to already know I'm up to something.
"What is it pumpkin?" he asks.

"Tom is having a Halloween party and I..." I was saying g it as fast as I can to try and finish my ask but he stopped me in trades as if he knew already what I would ask, he was already shaking his head no.

I gave him a pouty face, " please daddy, I'll do lots of chores, I wont drink or anything."

He then Sais "look I know what happens at party's. Although its not meant to be a danger, it will be and I don't want you hurt. Plus I know you, and the temptation will pull you in no matter what you say. Dear, it's called peer pressure. Your mom will agree with me. How about some ice cream, you use to love going to Dairy Ville."

I already new the answer was no, but that didn't sop me from getting mad.

"I hate you, you never let me go out, and its just not fair. I've been good all this time, get decent grades, pick the right friends, even applied to the collage you chose and not what I wanted. I take the classes a nerd takes and not the classes of being a designer I wanted, and.. and.. your just not fair." (Tears are streaming down my face, but i don't care. Maybe me crying can persuade him.)

"My friends are cheerleaders. I cant be friends with anyone I want. You guys don't agree with the type of friends I want. You told my last lesbian friend to go fix herself or she was going to hell. You told her until she became straight; she wasn't to hang out with me again. She hasn't come back since. Its not fair and I hate you." I ranted like crazy, not realizing we have been sitting in the car in our driveway and mom was on the other side of the open window door on dad's side, both faces were shocked.

When I did realize I was home, before they could reply to my outburst I ran inside, to my room and banged my door shut, and then turned my music full blast. Put my face in my pillow and screamed and cried non-stop until I fell asleep.

I woke up when my name was called for dinner. I forgot I was mad and cheerfully said "hey mom, dad. What's for dinner? It smells yummy." They glared at me. Looking very upset. I remembered why I was upset, and then I remembered my outburst. " Fine, I'm not hungry." I got up.

"SIT DOWN young lady! We have some talking to do. And you will eat while we talk." My dad had growled out. I quickly sat, looking ashamed and frustrated.

My mom was first to go.

"Ok. Were going to be calm about this. You asked to go to a party. And your dad said no. He gave you his answer with good reasons. Yet you felt the need to take your anger to a really high level and yell at him almost all the way home. Now, I am here to tell you that you need to apologize for your behavior as well as stay in your room with no games or no electronic devices. You are hereby grounded until we see that you have received your punishment with open eyes and with sincere apologetic behavior. You will do chores a lot harder than the ones you have been given in the past and your cheerleading friends are not to come over for the sleep over you had planned. Now that you have been given your punishment, look at your father and apologize. Hear him out to."