Mimi sat in the living room of her parents' home. No, she thought, they aren't my parents. I was adopted and I'll probably never know who my real parents were. Mimi had just turned thirteen and for some reason or another, her parents had decided to tell her that she was adopted. Mimi, of course, was devastated. Not only had she found out that she was adopted, but she also found out that her parents were getting a divorce. In what felt like an instant, Mimi's whole world had come crashing down around her.
Now, it was close to midnight. Her father had left to go be with his girlfriend. Her mother was in bed. Mimi, however, was on the couch with a bottle of her mother and father's vodka in front of her. She had never drank alcohol before tonight, but the bottle was already half empty. She wasn't even sure what had possessed her to go to the liquor cabinet and take the bottle out, but she had done it and right now, she had no regrets. The vodka brought a strange feeling to Mimi, but she liked it. She took another swig from the bottle and began to laugh. It was a very loud laugh and Mimi half hoped that her mother would hear her and come downstairs. Mimi knew that even if she was caught with the half empty vodka bottle, she would never get in trouble. Her parents would pretend like it never happened.
In no time at all, Mimi had finished the whole bottle of vodka and passed out on the sofa. In the morning, Mimi woke up on the couch with a pounding headache. She looked around and saw that the vodka bottle was gone. She heard her mother in the kitchen getting ready for work. She got up and went into the kitchen to get a drink of water and a few Tylenol. Her mother looked at her and smiled.
"You must have been up late last night watching television…when I got up this morning, you were sound asleep on the couch." Her mother stated as she placed her coffee cup in the sink.
"Yeah." Mimi lied as she got a bottle of water from the fridge and popped a few Tylenol into her mouth.
Her mother gave her a quick kiss on the forehead and then she was out the door. Mimi slumped against the counter. She couldn't believe that her mother was actually going to pretend that it never happened. She sighed, took another drink of her water, and headed upstairs to take a shower.