“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.” says Maya Angelou. Parents aren't perfect but to be totally honest, growing up, my parents were perfect. They never argued, they just always seemed to be happy. They went to work, my mama would come home first and my daddy would come home around 6 pm. I’d run and jump on him like I hadn’t seen him in days. It was the like a perfect little family, until something suddenly happened one day. My father didn't look at my mother the same anymore. He started coming in the house later than usual, and I never saw him anymore. I had just turned 9 years old, and I saw the changes in my family life quicker than my mother did.
One…show more content… I was ready to go home to be with my mama. When I finally found him, him and the lady was talking. “Where yall finna go?” “Probably to mama house but I'll text you” he said “Okay bye hun see yall later”. So after they left, my daddy wanted to take a picture. Not just a regular picture but a picture that Chuck E Cheese was going to draw. When our picture was done, we left Winston and went home. On the way home, he asked “did you have fun?” I said “ I guess.” When we arrived home, I waited for my mama to get home from work. When she arrived, I could already tell she had a long day. When she walked in, she said “I missed you babygirl” as she hugged me. I told her I missed her too. She asked “What did you and your daddy do today?”. I replied “We went to Chucky E Cheese” “Chuck E Cheese?” my mama said. “Who was all there?” I answered “Some lady and her daughter was having a birthday party”. My mama didn’t say anything. She looked at me and then walked in her room. I didn’t understand why all of a sudden her mood had changed, I just left her alone…show more content… My mama just didn't care about anything anymore, and I taught myself a lot of the things I know now. I won't say that I grew up to be a bad person, but I didn't grow up to be like my brother. Many family members would say “She’s not like Brannon because she grew up without her father”. I hated when people would say stuff about him. He was no longer apart of our family. He hurt my mama and tried to take all of our things. So growing up, I didn’t like that man. I knew how much he had hurt my mama and I didn’t like that at all. I grew up being a mama’s girl, so of course I’d feel more for her than my daddy. Plus, he didn’t need any sympathy anyways. He didn’t deserve it after all he had put my mama and our family