The Day I Got Away Research Paper

When I was growing up my family never went on big expensive trips. We would always stay home, play board games and watch movies. It’s moments like those that I think I miss the most. My mom, dad, younger sister Meagan and I all sitting in the living room having a good time. I didn’t need the fancy trips to make me happy, it was spending time with my family that I enjoyed. But soon those moments that I enjoyed so much started to become more rare.
I never knew that my parents were unhappy with their marriage. I guess I was just too young to be able to see it. I was only around the age of seven or eight. Eventually my parents started to sleep in different rooms. To me it just seemed normal, I thought that everyone 's parents slept in separate …show more content…
All of the adults would be gathered in the living room or the kitchen while all of the grandkids would be on the second flood doing whatever we wanted.I don’t remember what holiday it was but the whole family was gathered at our grandparents house. I clearly remember that all of us grandkids were upstairs in the spare bedroom where there was a bunk bed. Meagan and I were both on the top bed along with my cousin Katrina who is the same age as I am. All of our cousins were in there with us messing around. My older cousins always liked to tease and pick on the younger ones so it wasn’t unusual for one of them to block off the stairs to get off the top of the bed. This time it happened to be my cousin Nate, one of Katrina’s older brothers. We were begging him to let us down but he wouldn’t move and then out of nowhere he says “your mom and dad are getting a divorce.” Of course I had never even heard this word before so I had no idea what it meant. All of my other cousins got really quiet when this was said. My oldest cousin Amber spoke up breaking the silence by saying to Nate that he wasn’t supposed to tell either my sister nor I about whatever that word …show more content…
As I think about it I can’t think of what my life would be like. I don’t know if it would be better than it is now or if it would be worse, all I know is that it would be greatly different. I also often think about if I would want to stay full time at one of my parents houses. I know that it would be a whole lot easier when it comes to moving between houses because I wouldn’t have to move between them. But I can’t imagine living without either of them. It’s a hard thing to think about for me because I still love both of my parents, but after so many years of living like this I want a shot at living a somewhat normal life. I want to be able to wake up in the same bed every morning and I want to be able to keep all of my things at one