Anita Gonzalez: A Short Story Of My Father

Okay, so the most important thing first: My counselor's name is Anita Gonzalez, and she can be reached at (210) 397-5408. I forgot what her extension is, but on Monday, I can see if she's in and I can email you her extension. And what's been going on with me... I think I would have to start back in early December. So, as of December third, my stepdad had been gone for a few months. Which to me, is kind of normal, he leaves my mom and a lot, it can be over little things, or can be over big things, but this was the longest he had been gone. And i was excited, I was happy, my mom and I had been fighting less, and I wasn't worried about him about him coming back, he had already taken almost everything he owned out of our house. Then my mom started talking to Louis. Louis is my mom's high school sweetheart. And it started off as friendship, of course, it's been twenty years since they last talked, but now, now Louis is head over heels for my mom, and in all honesty, that fact alone would not bother me. Louis is …show more content…
After that he started coming by our house more often, and by the seventh, my mom had argued nearly twice a day since January first. Finals were on January 12-15, and I have dance practice twice a week after school, for talent show and Asian festival and drama club rehearsals twice a week after school with officer meetings after school on Mondays, so the added stress wasn't welcome to me. But on January eighth, I received news that my grandmother died. My friend was spending the night, and when we got to my house, my dad called and told me. After that phone call, I missed the last two days of finals and went home to Chicago, where my mom spent most of our trip making me feel like a terrible person for wanting to spend some time with the other side of my family (my dad's side, as his mother is the one who