im going to share a scary story that happened to me at a water park. (secret/regret) i was 10 years old at a water park near where i lived. There were these like 16 year old guys there that all looked like they were drunk. My friends wanted to go on a water slide but i didn’t so i started floating around the lazy river alone, these guys come up to me and say ,” Hey ur hot” clearly they thought i was older than 10 and then they said something else that made me terrified, they said ,” wanna go behind the pool house?” I almost stopped breathing right there because i knew what they meant, but i was 10 years old and it terrified me so much i just swam away as fast as i could, i told my friends but not my parents, which i regret so much. The guys started following me around the water park with my friends, it was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me in my life. at one point they grabbed me and tried to kiss me but i punched them to get away, i locked my self in the bathroom with my friends the rest of the night.

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023