Sept. 10th, 2009
Mystic Falls, Virginia
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My life is not a miserable one, not by a long shot. I live in a quaint little town with a sturdy roof over my head. I have a mother who takes care of me and a father who says he loves me. My mom is pretty much your standard edition guardian, she works to put food on the table and clothes on my back. I wish she was more than that to me though, the woman pretty much puts her job over me all the time. I know being the sheriff in this town is an important job, but what about being an actual mother? What about my needs as her child? Ever since my father left, she threw herself into her work. I mean, I can understand why. I wouldn’t be able to stand being in this place either if I went through what she did. Her own husband ran off to start another relationship, with a man no less. That’s gotta be a blow to her confidence. I love my mom, I really do, and I feel like I gave her enough time to heal… but she needs to put her big girl panties on and finish raising me. I mean, I pretty much raised myself up to this point. But come on, a girl needs both of her parents around. I shouldn’t have to look to one of my best friends’ households to learn how to live in this world. Sometimes I hate my father for what my own home has become. It’s a ghost town in this house at best because most of the time, I’m the only one here. It’s a blessing and a curse, a double-bladed sword. On the one hand I have the freedom to come and go, to do as I please. On the other, the lack of supervision in this house would land the Forbes family on a CPS radar for sure. That would never happen though, my mom’s the sheriff. Who in their right mind would snitch on the law? Who would they even tell? Mystic Falls is a small backwater town in the boonies of Virgina, nobody cares that much about what goes on here. Not when it comes to me anyway. Such is the life of me, Caroline Luciana Forbes. A teenage girl with an absentee mother and a deadbeat for a father, what a sad combination.
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