This Is Me

Chapter 1

I'm sitting on the bed beside my mother, both of us watching my father intensely as he stands by the cupboard packing a suitcase with clothing, mumbling angrily to himself. I watch the tears flood down my mothers beautiful face, creating a small puddle on her arm. I'm crying, I feel this pang of hurt in my chest, I don't know what's going on but somehow I know it's not good. My mother puts her hand on my head, sniffling before she tells me to go to my room. I walk slow, painfully slow. My legs won't allow me to move, my curiosity takes over, I want to know what's going on. I stand by the door listening to my parents scream at one another.
"How could you Kirsen, how could you. I always knew you were a slut!" My father yells at the top of his lungs. I hear my mom crying, I hear such pain and heartache in her voice.
"I'm so sorry Darren, it was a mistake I swear I never loved him. You're the only one I love!" She cries out with strain in her voice.
"Bullshit, you don't love me, if you loved me you wouldn't have cheated on me with that filthy bastard!" There's silence. The silence is so intense you could hear a pin drop, there's heavy breathing...
"I'm fucking done, I refuse to live under the same roof as a cheater."
My mom breaths out deeply and sniffles again.
"What about your daughter, she needs her father. Micaela need her father..."
My dad chuckles in amusement, "I guess you should have thought of that before you cheated on me."
I hear footsteps coming closer, I run as fast as my little legs can up the stairs to my room. Two minutes later my dad walks in, his eyes are red and puffy, his cheeks are stained with tears and he's carrying a large bag on his back. He bends down in front of me. Stairs at me for a second, neither of us daring to say a word, then he pulls me into his big arms squeezing me tightly. I start to cry...
"Listen to me honey, daddy has to go away for a little while."
"Where like on a vacation?"
"Yeah like a vacation." He whispers
"When will you be back daddy?" I ask
The tears start flowing from his eyes again, "I don't know angel pie, but I'll try come back as soon as I can." He kisses me on the forehead, stands up and walks out my room down the stairs. I sit on the top of the stair case, watching as my dad as he walks out of the door my mom is holding open for him, neither of them saying a word. Suddenly heartache and distress hits me like a truck. Without thinking, I run down the stairs and jump into my dads arms screaming, "Don't leave me daddy, I need you, please don't leave me!"
I'm fisting his shirt so tight my hands start cramping. My mom try's clawing me off my dad but I put up a fight. My mom pulls me... Hard and as I let go of my dad, I rip the buttons of his shirt and they scatter to the floor. I kick and I scream as my mom cradles me in her small arms. Before I could even say goodbye, my dad was in his car driving down the street already.

This is where it all started... This is me!