Because you expect me to be like Emerson or Finley when you know i'm not
Because you treat me like i’m a 5 year old
Because you expect me to be a perfect christian girl when i don't want to be, I don't want to be your perfect 15 year old daughter
No ones perfect so why do you push me to be?
The lie wasn't even a big deal but somehow it ended up with your round sausage fat finger in my face, screaming at me saying i’m going to go to hell, your eyes bulging out in a unusual way, cheeks bright red, teeth out, lips looking like a butthole
Because you say “we want what's best for you” like screaming at me is best
Because I want to come home and brain rot, not cook your dinner because you're too ‘lazy’
Because of the amount of homework I have to finish
Because I want to hide and soak in my bed
Because i don't want to hear what you have to say
Because you’re mean to me
Because with every lecture and somehow you don't seem to notice I don't care
Because you think you know how it is to be a female girl in this generation
Because you think that if you give me what i want the fact you would punch a wall when your mad or dump honey in my hair or even apologize 13 times for it changes the way i feel about you
Because you saved me (You adopted me to give me a home, a family, and two loving parents but yet again do I feel loved? Do you think I feel loved? I say you don't love me and you say “look at this home look and your room look at all the food you have look at everything we give you” but that's your job as my father you are supposed to give me a home and food and clothes)
Because you know you love your biological kids more then your adopted ones
Because I told you I didn't do it
Because i wanted you to think i was a good daughter even tho im not
Because i did bring my phone upstairs
Because i did play on it for 68 hours that week
Because i did download snapchat when you told me no
Because this was my tenth time doing it that year
Because I just know how you would react if I told you the truth.
--Paige R., 9th-12th Grade