Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

never understand me or what I'd been through.
“Shut up! ” All eyes turned towards a clearly upset Valentina who in turn
was glaring at the woman with pure hatred in her eyes. “Don’t ever say that
again! You don’t know her!” Angry tears ran down her eyes and her chest
was erratically moving up and down.
I think I hadn’t realized until that moment just how much this situation was
affecting her. Of course, I knew the trauma of that night would always remain,
I knew she was probably sad and disoriented and upset about everything that
happened.
What I never took into consideration was that my nice, polite, loving little
sister might have been angry, all this time.
I never even realized how what I did that night might affect her and the
way people would perceive her.
“How dare you.” That came from another mom and brought me out of my
thoughts. “Is that how you plan on raising her? To be disrespectful and rude,
like you?” She looked at me, disgust seeping into her features.
“We’ve really tried with you!” Another bleached blond jumped in.
“We’ve tried, for Marcella’s sake, because she was an astounding member of
our community, but no more. You never tried to fit in, always wearing your
ghetto clothes and spray painting our streets like a vulgar delinquent!”
“We will not let you raise this girl to be like you.” My heartbeat was out
of control, so many of them spoke at the same time, Valentina was crying,
these awful women were spitting the nastiest things at me. My world was
spinning. I was overwhelmed. I was sad. I was fucking livid.
“Prepare to hear from CPS soon, Miss Raymond.” The first mom snipped,
eyes narrowed at me.
These people never liked me, they never tried, like they’d just claimed.
They only wanted me to conform and as soon as I didn’t, deemed me an