Essay About My Mom Going Away

It was Easter Sunday 2008. My mom and dad had just recently divorced, and me, well I, was greeted with a warm welcome to the world of angst. As an almost eight year old and as a kid with a handful of friends, video games were my escape, my retreat from the rest of the cold, dark and vicious world (It would remain as my escape until I was about fifteen or so). The next year and half would be one of the most difficult durations of my life and throughout it, nothing compares to the sheer pain I felt during this span of time. My two favorite people in the entire world, my heroes, my idols; now separated, forever. It turns out, they didn't feel the same about each other, at least the way I did of them. After I caught wind of this, I fell to pieces. When I learned my mom was ‘going away’ as my dad put it, I hit the ground and …show more content…
Essentially, it was to brace for a week with a drunken father, who cared more about how he’d fulfill his hourly nicotine craving with a Marlboro Red or how he’d get to sleep without a couple of towering, gold cans of Miller Lite. But as I was saying, I was packing my belongings when I noticed something strange and pretty unsettling… my brand new copy of Star Wars Battlefront 2 had vanished into thin air. The only item I truly wanted for Easter was now missing. Now in the mind of an eight year old, when articles of clothing or your favorite fruit snacks and especially your favorite video game disappear, you assume the ashes of the once pliable object are now levitating in air, mocking you, and making it seem as if your stupidity resulted in the direct consequence of whatever it is you're looking becoming pulverized. As I realized and became fully aware of the drastic situation at hand, it seemed that all arrows pointed towards my sister. I whipped around and walked out of my bedroom and into the hallway where my sister was. I instantly turned into a mini-drill sergeant and began accosting her, demanding answers in regard to the whereabouts of my