Bickering: A Fictional Narrative

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That moment when everything in your world is turned upside down. Bickering wasn’t it , sometimes it was yelling or even leaving for the night our dad was mainly the one who left but mom sometimes had enough of the fighting .
2 years ago things seemed to be fine but now we can't even eat dinner without them arguing. Right now they are arguing about his late nights at work where he really is and why he's gone so much. Dad storms out of the room and moms runs after him the fighting continues until mom leaves for the night. I head up to my room Amy my sister comes with me.

Briana opens my window and climbs through it she was just here this morning “Hey what do you need” I said, she was my best friend but sometimes she got a little annoying,
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Later that evening my parents have stopped arguing except for the fact that my dad might be sleeping on the couch for the rest of his life. I'm not really sure what happened but it wasn't good. That night all we did was stay on our phones and then watch a movie i could hear my mom crying the whole night that's when i knew something was wrong.
That morning we woke up and went downstairs to get ready for school Neither of my parents were there. The cars were gone so i had to ride the bus. Briana came with me when we got to school It was just a normal day First science then math, LA and social studies i had all my classes with Briana. I don't know how that happened but it did. After school we drive home in her car since she was born 5 months before me and was 16. When we get home it's not really a home anymore it's just a house an empty house with my mom crying in front of the fireplace.
Everything is gone , sydney steps out and Amy comes down the stairs she's crying also. “ Honey,.......” my mom pauses for a moment and then she says the thing that i never wanted to hear
“ Your dad is gone”. It almost feels like my knees are collapsing i buckle to the ground and start to

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