lisettes+short+story

short story

My name is chantel I' m 16 years old. I go to martin luther king jr. high school for law,advocacy,,justice. I'm in the 11th grade. This all started when my dad met my moms best friend or ex-best friend whatever you want to call her,well she liked my dad from the start. They met at a holiday party in the Bronx than they were talking in a corner when my mom was in the bathroom but I was watching he saw me watching thats when he stopped talking and walked away like nothing happened. Then he started to come home late from"work". Then a woman started calling and hanging up, I knew it was a woman because i heard her about to say hi but then realized it was another woman not my father. That's when i had to tell my mom, she didn't believe me at first untill she started listening on my fathers calls. She did that for 5 days straight untill she finally decided to confront him about it at first he said "its just a co-worker" my mom said "no i was lisetening". At first he was mad about it then he said he sorry but she said no because if he did that once he might do that again. Then my mom finally said after 2 months of being split up that she wants a divorce at first he said no but then he understood why but he still didn't want a divorce he wanted to work it out,so he stayed a day to talk it over. It worked she wasn't goin to file a divorce but they were going to be split up but always working out. A year passed and my mom met somebody, they were going on dates and stuff. Then finally he ask her to marry him. She said"I can't I'm married." But she filed a divorce a few weeks later.He asked why she said because she doesn't love him anymore.

Her boyfriend ask her to marry him she said yes. They got married the month after he asked her to marry him which was in august. At first I thought he was nice truth is he was only acting nice because they weren't married yet. He tries to hit me sometimes but my mom always stops him. But what's going to happen when my mom isn't there to stop him,what will I do I won't be able to fight back.Well I talked to my mom about it and she said that he wouldnt hit me, of course I didnt believe because moms dont know nothing they always think everything is ok.

It's been 2 months since my mother got married and right now my mom just got layed off. Now my dad is the only person with a job in the family. He's telling me to get a job but I keep telling him that I'm not old enough to get a job yet he says there's plenty of jobs for me I found out they're not the kind of jobs I want. A couple of weeks later I found a job thats good enough, its being a secretery for my dad I can't believe we didn't think of this earlier. Today is my first day on the job as a secretery ,i hope its as good as my dad says it is.

