I woke up tired. So tired the light would burn my eyes and any sound would make my head ring. My mom yelled from downstairs, " Claire get dressed, enough sleeping, it's 8:30 am." Why does she constantly torture me? I wanted to tell back, " It's only 8:30 so leave me alone." But before I even opened my mouth she yelled once more, " Don't make me come up there." I hated it when she did this it triggered this annoyance and hatred, but I couldn't do anything about it. It was like a compulsion or something I couldn't ignore it. So, I put my gray sweats, and t-shirt on. I quickly brushed my teeth, put my hair in a messy bun, and rushed downstairs. When I finally came down to the kitchen sat down in the same chair I did for the past 14 years of my life. My mom asked me, " How did you sleep?" I looked at her confused for a second but then said, " Great!" I didn't want her to know I binge-watched Friends again. She looked at me suspiciously and finally after 30 seconds, but what felt like an eternity said, " did you binge watch some dumb show again." I don't know what happened but she triggered me again. I responded so quick she didn't have a moment to breathe, " First of all, Friends is not stupid. Second I don't understand why you think that is why I'm tired. And last I don't think it's fair that I'm not allowed to watch tv in the day time, but when I do it at night you yell at me." She looked astonished, disappointed even. I couldn't believe what I just said, I hurt my mom and that hurt me. I said I was sorry, but she quietly responded with, " Go to your room." I felt like crying, but no tears came out of my face. I just sat there for like an hour. But, then I realized I was hungry. I went out to the kitchen where I saw my mom making pancakes. Lots of them. That was my favorite, but why, I just snapped at her. I went back to my room since I didn't know what to say. I looked around and I didn't have much to do. So I went to my closet to prepare what I was going to wear the next day for school. I looked around and I see some clothes on the floor a couple of sweaters and pants but I don't know if they're clean or not so I put them in the laundry basket. I see a little button-like shape I didn't know what to do so I touched it, I pulled on it, I pushed it nothing worked, nothing happened but then I saw a little outline. It was strange, more of an oval shape rather than a rectangle. My mom then came up to my room looking really sad, and said two words, " Breakfast's ready." I was horrified, did I really depress my mom. Then, while I was eating delicious blueberry pancakes with my mom I couldn't handle it anymore. I suddenly burst out crying and quietly said, " I'm so sorry mom, I didn't mean to hurt, I wish I can take it back, I would never hurt in purpose. You mean the world to me, I will never touch my electronics again, if that wants it is." Then a sound broke out from my room. I said, " mom did you hear that?" She simply replied, " Of course I heard it and I'm sorry just sometimes you make me feel like I punish you too much." I stop her there and ask her if I can go to my room for a second. She said sure and I rushed upstairs. I don't know how she didn't hear the sound I heard but someone cut out the oval shape in my closet and put the cut-out shape back on as if it were a door. It surprisingly worked as a door. When I told my mom about the sound and showed her the door she said that it's been like that for years and I must be hallucinating. I went to my room and examined the door.
