Dark Shadows

Memories

"Alana honey come and eat breakfast."

"Coming mother"

I miss the times where my mom and dad used to have breakfast at the table every morning before school. We were such the perfect family, until my mother and father divorced. Mother discovered that dad was cheating on her and had two more kids who were unknown. It tore our family apart, but I don't hate my father for that. I love him very much. After the divorce my mother had gained full custody over me. I'm a junior in high school so soon I'll be on my own.

"Alana come get your breakfast now," she said in a raging voice.

Now a days she so upset and angry at me for something I didn't do. I guess because I'm part of the man she hate most, but it doesn't give her the right to envy me.

"I'm here now are you happy"

"Yes Alana I'm very excited for you coming down 5 minutes from when I told you."

"I'm here now gosh mom you're angry all the time."

"You have no right to raise your voice at the person who raised you", she slapped me and I fell to the floor.

"You make me so upset and anxious, now get up."

My mom is mentally unstable and she takes pills that the doctor prescribed her for anxiety, but more than one. She does this I guess to escape the real world.

"Alana please get up," she tries to help me up but I snatch away from her.

"All I do is try to help you and you act like a brat. Please get up baby I don't mean to hit you, it's for your own good," she starts to cry while explaining to me and she nurses me back to my feet.

"I'm sorry baby now get ready for school."

I was always happy to go to school I could be where I was happy again.