I dont know if my story is so much sad as it is depressing
So a little background first
1. My dad was born in England then moved to the states with his dad when he was about 10
2. When this happened I lived in Washington D.C.
3. I have 3 brothers and a sister, all younger
4. I'm now 18 and in college
Ok, Escapist first post tells a story I haven't told anybody, not even my own mother(although she does know bits and pieces from what i have gathered).
When my sister was born in 2002, my parents did not have much money and decided it was best to send me to live with my aunt, my mother's sister, in New York City. My aunt did not like the idea that my mother married a foreigner and thought that my dad my brothers, sister and I were complete piles of dog sh*t.
For most of the time I was with my aunt, 6 grueling years I wish I could forget, I spent locked inside of her apartment(grumpy old bat never married and if you met her you would know why) playing pokemon and having little to no interaction with the outside world. She home-schooled me at the request of my then-ill grandmother(mother's side again) and then began the long days of torture in her "school". She began to teach me that to be a human you have to be born in America, and everyone else were inferior and the devil's spawn and what-not. I learned very few real world skills, she considered them to be secondary to all things American. This went on for six years. I only left the apartment to go to Yankee stadium once a season and whenever she wanted to get food(almost never, she always ordered it to the door). I had almost no interaction with other people my age, the only ones I could relate to were Ash, Misty, and Brock.
This is the part I will never forget.
As you may have guessed I despised her from the beginning and took nothing of what she said to heart.
In early 2008 there was a warm morning with a slight breeze coming through my window. I woke up and smelt oatmeal cooking, and went to see if she made any for me as well. I walk out of my room into the kitchen area and see her on the floor, motionless. My first reaction was, "f*ck yes! The old b*tch is dead". Then it sunk in, she was actually dead. A family member whom I had lived with for 6 years was dead. I hated her but she was family. I wanted to jump for joy and just scream down the street "she's dead!", but I couldn't. The woman who had taught me nothing, and essentially kept me a prisoner was dead, and I started to cry.
Three days later I moved back in with my parents. A lot had changed since I had left and I vowed that what I experienced will not happen to any of my brothers or sister. I had suffered enough for the five of us.