It all started out with that little incident.
"Sandra Florance, I cannot believe you are being so disrespectful right now! I have been putting up with this unruly behavior for a long time-but enough is enough! You won't listen to me, we can't talk about anything anymore! You have become such a control freak and you are holding yourself back!"
I sighed in annoyance as my mother droned on once again. I love her-I really do, but she has not been respecting me at all the last couple of months. She thinks she needs respect? Well it's a two way street honey.
But despite my train of thoughts tears are glazing my eyes and my throat is choking up. I actually hated the thought of my mom being disappointed in me. But I needed to stand up for myself! After being pushed around about college, school, and my personal life-I was dead tired of it all. My anxiety has really shot through the roof this year and I honestly can't take any more of this yelling.
"Oh so your ignoring me now!? Well fine. YOU CAN GO TO YOUR SISTERS FOR YOUR LAST SEMESTER OF HIGH SCHOOL. IGNORE ME THERE." After furiously spewing these words she stormed from the kitchen table and stomped toward her room.
Shock spread throughout my body and while sitting in stunned silence I briefly noted the slam of her bedroom door. What did she just say? I got up and hurried to her room, but just as I readied by fist to knock I halted. Did she even really mean that? I thought back to all the other punishments she had threatened before. She never followed through on those. Plus my sister would never agree to that. They lived all the way out in La Push, Washington.
I lowered my fist and headed to my room. There was no way she was actually serious.