The Maternal Instinct : A Narrative

Leaving

Many things have happened in my life because of my mother. I feel like the most extreme was when she kicked her own child out of a house she wasn't living in when I was seventeen. I had nowhere to go, I was angry and hurt. There was screaming, tears, throwing of things, and threats made. I tried to call my grandmother with tears pouring down my face when my mother came into my room and threw my phone, she screamed "You f***ing liar! That's all you ever do! I can't believe you would do this to me!" As if me wanting to leave wasn't her fault. I was always a burden to her, and she consistently pointed it out. "I'll get you arrested! Then where are you going to go? Nowhere! You'll have to stay with me! . . . Do it! Runaway! I'll let them take you to jail! . . . I'll say you stole the car!" I screamed that I just wanted to be away from her, that she was hurting me. So she threw all my things out, and made me leave.