In the midst ofmy emotional breakdown,I heard my dad bellow my name andsay something else.I couldstill hearhis lisp even when he used his firmest voice.”Essie Miracle! Honey,there will be none of that!Don’t hide things fromme!What’s this I hear about you freaking out in school and being so snappy at everyone and miserable?I don’t know why you’ve beenlike this!No wonder your friends haven’t been the same towards you lately.Baby, you’re a wreck! You know I can tell when something’s wrong!”He was being such a high and mighty hypocrite when it was plain to see that he wasn’t the same.”You have hardly remembered the fact of my existance lately,and now you’re saying that you know if I’m upset!That is the most preposterous,freaking thing I’ve ever heard in my whole damned life!”I shouted.My father looked both taken aback and indifferent at the same time,if such a thing is possible.Still,he yelled so loudly that to me,the walls shook.”How dare you even think of speaking that way!I raised you better than that!”