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who was running around my parents’ bedroom in search of the rest of her clothes.
    “How could you do this to Mom?” I questioned, nearly choking out the words. “How could you do this to our family?” He looked like I smacked him from the way he recoiled from my words. A pause resonated between us as we both tried to measure up the other. I knew he would try to make me feel bad so I wouldn’t tell Mom, but he had never had me stand up to him before and that meant he would underestimate me. So I made my intentions clear. “Either you tell her, or I will.”
    That got a response out of him. “Lauren, there are things you don’t understand,” he stated as he put his hands out to try to calm me down. “Parker is here, and I don’t think you want to cause a scene in front of a guest.” I opened my mouth to speak, but he prevented me by continuing to tell me about how I didn’t understand what it was like to be an adult, that I’m just a child, and I may never understand, but we could let it slide as if nothing happened. “I could forgive you for lying to me, and not doing your schoolwork as you told me you would. We could just forget this happened.”
    I’d never been more disgusted with someone in my life.
    I hadn’t realized I was shaking with anger until I glanced at the woman, now fully dressed, waiting for the fight to be over so she could leave. “You’re both awful people!” I cried, snapping. A tear slipped down my cheek, but I ignored it. I noticed the woman cringed, as did my father, so I continued. “You’re cheating on Mom; the woman you made a promise to in your vows, and pledged to love. You’re shacking it up with some…some—” I bit my tongue, not wanting to say the word, but it slipped out due to my anger “—whore.”
    “Lauren, watch your tongue!” Dad warned.
    “Don’t turn this on me. I should be telling you to watch out for diseases, and that would only come out of the love I had for you. Maybe you should go to a doctor and make sure everything is in order before you try to get with another woman when Mom leaves you and this one does too.” I glanced at the woman again. She had a blank stare, as if unmoved by anything I said. Not even by me calling her a whore. “She looks like she’s done this before, judging from how comfortable she is waiting for our fight to be over.”
    His eyes grew wide in shock. I had much more to say, but I didn’t want her to suffer through it all. I barely knew her, or what he told her. Maybe she didn’t even know he was married, or had a kid, much less one who would suddenly snap in front of her. I just wanted to make sure she never came back. A cruel smile curved at the edge of my lips before I turned to the woman he was having the affair with. Suddenly, she didn’t seem so comfortable.
    I don’t know what came over me, other than anger, as I walked up to her. I had never been this outspoken before and I could tell it was only going to become more common. I knew that I had opened a flood gate, and no matter what I did I wasn’t going to be able to stop it now.
    “Do I need to walk you out or do you have enough common courtesy to leave and never come back?” She hung her head low and walked past me. I watched her leave, but interrupted her when she stopped to say something to my father. “When I say leave and never come back, I mean for you to get out of our home and never talk to him again!” I screamed as I shooed the woman out of the house. I followed her down the stairs, even though my father was ordering me to stop, and slammed the door behind her when she finally left.
    Now all that was left was confronting my father about his lies and broken rules. How ironic.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 4
     
     
    Take Responsibility
     
    I tried to control my anger while my father attempted to talk his way out of what he did, but the more he explained the more upset I became. He met the woman at an office function, who was someone