Opening my eyes to the thundering sound of my alarm clock that my mother has set once again, I turned the power button off and I lightly went back to sleep on my silky pillow that I bought last summer. Trying to sleep again but of course my mother has to say the same thing every single day, telling me to get up for school and I missed to many days.. Doesn’t she think I know that already, well I get up once again to her alarming shouts and I stroll to my chaotic bathroom, and act like I am getting ready like every morning, I turn on my shower for about thirty minutes to act like I’m taking a shower till she leaves for work then i peacefully go back to my prodigious bed, I anxiously opened my bathroom door to get out and my mother standing right infront of my door “chop chop, no work for me today!” .

I rolled my eyes and howled what I always say when I get caught “today is a free day, there’s no need for me to go to this foolish school” but really today I have two hefty quizzes that I’m trying to skip.  She pulled me from my arm and she sat me down on the old white chair, and she started to make breakfast, I was surprised because I didn’t know what was going on, I’ve never seen her cook, she cooks for me but never have i sat with her while she cooked because she would always tell me to get out because i’ll ruin her dazzling, tidy kitchen.

She quietly sat down and placed the delicious looking pancakes, she put my green tea in front of my and asked me if I could be honest with her, I right away had goosebumps and I thought about all the things I’ve done for the past couples days since my last punishment, she started to cut my pancakes and put the extremely sweet syrup all over the pancake.

She asked me to remember how her life way with my father, and on top of my mind I was already thinking about it because it would haunt me everyday, I replied with yes ma’am, she said to me “ You know why I didn’t leave your father till I finished college?” and I replied no ma’am, she said “ Because I wasn’t good in school, I always skipped school and I failed my senior year the first time, because I found your father and he got me off track of school and education which made me forget about high school, my senior year, prom, and all that because I was pregnant with you, you were a blessing for me when you came into the world and that’s why I started to build myself again for a better future for you and me, and when I did that your father became more and more aggressive, but I held on, and I survived and graduated, for you to have a better life, so don’t let yourself fall apart, it's either now or it will be so much harder in the future, you’re smart I promise you.”  she gently wiped the tears that were running across my cheek, I was speechless I whispered “I love you” and I was ready for a new start.