Hoped

My mother was sitting in the laundry room crying. Dawn my sister went to check on her. When dawn opened the door my mother was screaming and crying. Dawn had me go to the living room and call Dad.
When he got home my mother yelled at him and he told her not to walk out the door. She had done this a long time ago and left and she came back the next day. He told her that if she did this she wouldn't be allowed back into our house. She told me she was going to a mental hospital and then left. I was only 9.
She came back later and told me she wasn't leaving and Dad told her to leave and he meant what he said.