A Not So Simple Life

In the Beginning

"You do what I say when I say!" *Thud* My whole life was about to change, even more than I expected. I didn't do anything wrong. I was on the floor tying my shoe when my dad had told me to come grab my water bottle. "One second dad, I'm tying my shoe." Then it happened... He grabbed me by the shirt lifting me into the air only to yell at me to do what he said when he said, then slammed me flat on my back onto the ground. I didn't know what to think, I was scared and shocked at the same time. He had never done anything like it before. It was the first week I was alone with him after my parents divorce when I was only nine. I still remember it like it was yesterday. In pain I walked to get on my bus that morning, and everyone just ignored me crying, including the bus driver. When I got to school, I walked in crying so hard that I could barley breathe. My teacher asked me "What's wrong?" With a concerned look on her face. "My dad... He lifted me into the air, screamed at me and threw me on the ground." I said still sobbing. Then what she said next, I will never forget it. *laughs* "Quit being a baby and suck it up!" I replied with "He hurt me!" Then she adds in "You're so over dramatic!" So I walked away crying even harder. "What a baby." She said under her breath. I heard it, but didn't say anything, and it was so hard not to. I was introduced to the school counselor that day too, because I guess my teacher couldn't take my crying anymore, it was too annoying and disrupting her class. So I went down and talked to this counselor, and all they did was just laugh at me again and tell me to go back to class, so I did, still down pouring with tears. As I walked in crying she told me to get out, so I sat in the hall all day just crying, until it was time to go home...