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so we’re at my aunt’s place eating this dry ass chicken and my mom (50sF) is in that weird extra nice mood she gets sometimes and i swear that’s always when something goes sideways, she starts telling stories about me as a kid but not like cute ones more like “haha remember when she lied for attention” type stuff and everyone’s doing that fake laugh like haha yeah… and im just sitting there like ok cool we’re doing this again, and i don’t even remember exactly what she said word for word but it was basically the same thing she used to tell people back then, that i made stuff up, that i was “difficult”

and i kinda froze for a bit tbh like i just kept poking at my food thinking just let it pass like always but then she goes on about how i’d lie to get sympathy and my cousin looks at me all weird and idk something just snapped or slipped or whatever

i said yeah i lied like when i told the school counselor everything was fine because i didn’t want to deal with what would happen if i didn’t

and it got QUIET like stupid quiet, even my aunt stopped mid bite, and my mom just stared at me for a second then did this fake laugh and was like wow still making things up huh

and that kinda pissed me off more than if she just yelled tbh

so i just… kept going, not even loud just talking into my plate like listing stuff, the screaming, her throwing my xbox once, the time she locked me out (i think i was like 14? maybe 13 idk exactly) and i remember it being cold af but she’ll probably say im exaggerating or something

no one said anything, like literally no one jumped in, not defending her not defending me just sitting there like npcs

then she stands up says im trying to humiliate her grabs her bag and leaves

dinner basically died after that, people started talking about random crap but it felt fake as hell

now she’s ignoring my calls and texts, my aunt messaged me like “maybe not the best time” but didn’t actually say i was wrong

and idk this is the part messing with my head, i didn’t lie, like not even a little, but also yeah i kinda blew it up in front of everyone and now it’s a whole thing

part of me feels weirdly lighter like finally saying it out loud where she couldn’t just shut it down, but also i feel like crap because now it’s messy and i don’t even know what happens next