No Longer Silenced

A little girls heart is broken

"Daddy!" I screamed as I ran to my father Robert's arms when he came home from work.  I was excited to tell him about my first day of school. I made lots of friends, learned to write my name and made a kite. My teacher Mrs. Gonzalez also gave us chocolate chips cookies. "Why are you dressed up?" My father said to my mother Caroline as he walked past me. I started to cry, not because he didn't give me a hug but because he started to hit my mother. It wasn't the first time he would hit her. A couple weeks ago my mother asked me and my sister Cristina to call the cops. My father ran to stomp his foot on the phone causing it to break into lots of pieces. Our house phone was white, with those curly cords, it was the only piece that survived. 

A few months has passed and my mother decided that she's going to divorce my father after discovering that he was cheating on her. I was sitting on the carpet as my mother went through a briefcase filled with important papers. A green paper grabbed my attention. "What's this?" I asked my mother. "It's your birth certificate." She replied without looking at me. I started to read my name, my mothers name, my fathers name. Wait, what did I just see on my fathers name. Mario. Who is Mario? "Mommy why does it have a different name under my fathers name and why do I have a different last name." My mom froze and stopped what she was doing. She wouldn't looked at me. It was an awkward silence. Robert is not your real father. Your father's name is Mario and you do not know who he is. He left us two days after you were born." My life was a lie, I have a father that I do not know! Why would they lie to me like this. Tears were falling down my cheeks as I listened to my mother tell me about all the bad things my real father did to my mother, my brothers and my sister. He was also a drug dealer. She also explained how me and my siblings all have different last names and different fathers. I couldn't believe everything I was hearing. My little heart has been broken for being lied to. Yes I was only five years old but I have seen so much and now this is the worst to have happened to me or so I thought.