Once upon a time ago... I could have been a stunt double.

[MythicMMM]

I've forgotten a lot of events in my past and how they flow together because a lot of it I couldn't handle or procces at the time, plus I stopped writing in my journal after a trust that was never really there getting broken, but once in a while another piece of the story floats back to me. This tidbit happened after this journal "Once upon a time ago... a snippit from the past". and before I got my G.E.D.

I had told teachers, my mother, and councillors what had happened, and none of them did anything about it.. so of course it happened again. For the first time ever in my life I skipped school. Two days in a row, Thursday and Friday. I hung out in the cemetery my aunt was buried into, just looking into the chocolate colored river and contemplating what to do next, run away, jump in the fast moving river, or go back on Monday and try again... 3 O'clock rolled around on Friday and I wandered on home, hungry since I didn't pack a lunch and still with out certain answer other than "go with the flow" till I figured it out. I got home and my mom was furious. The school had called her and asked her why I wasn't in school Friday. I spent that whole weekend grounded (like I had any where to go. lol) for skipping Friday.

Monday rolled around. My mother insisted on driving me to school so I couldn't skip. Now this is where the story gets interesting. She was still going up one side and down the other of me for the whole 10 minute drive to school and anything I said just made her even more mad. She slowed down for a red light that was about to turn green a which point in a rash teenage moment I unhooked my seat belt and made a tuck and roll bail out of a car moving 15 mph. She grabbed my shirt as I was doing this, but I some how managed to get free of without getting myself run over by the car in the process.

That was just the beginning of my bad day.

She cruised along next to me cursing, threatening me with groundings and so forth till she made the very good point that I was going to be late for school if I didn't get in, so I got in (got to love teenage reasoning). We were both silent the rest of the drive to school where I went straight to the truancy office and she left for work. I think the woman that was there and in charge of "doling out punishment to delinquent children" was named "smokey". Now here is a credit to my honesty (stupidity?). I was going to get in house for two days for skipping one day, "Friday", of school, at which point I corrected her and told her I had skipped two days, Thursday and Friday. Would you believe she argued with me because not a single one of my 5 teachers had marked me absent on Thursday. So she sent me to my guidance councillor, Mr.Flory while she found and ask the people I hung out with at lunch (whom are also honest to a fault).

So I spent a week inside a room no bigger than a bathroom with Mr.Wade in in-house suspension, then going home to be grounded for the week because I couldn't come up with a better answer to why I skipped school other than "I don't know" because my brain was so fried from the events which in turn made every one even more mad.

[used2chaos]

Sep. 12, 2009 at 8:41 PM

Being a teenager is soooo hard.  I hated it, I hope to handle my own children's teen years with empathy and understanding.  Gonna be a hard row to hoe, I think.

[Guinhyvar]

Sep. 12, 2009 at 11:49 PM

I really didn't like being a teenager. I remember that teen logic- oh so fun, it is.

[MythicMMM]

Sep. 13, 2009 at 2:30 AM

I really don't think any one did like being a teen or likes teens. To bad we can't just phase that portion of life out of the human time line.

(Original Poster)