Okay, this is going to get long, just as a forewarning.

My dad and step mom were together for ten years, married since 2001. She was from a nice, well-off church family, while we were considered “lower,” until she got pregnant, that is. She was always negligent of me, favoring my little brother and treating me as the metaphorical “red headed stepchild.” They had several breakups, including one where she cheated on him with one of his best friends. The next two are negligible, though the one before this is important: they break up, my dad starts to see someone, one of his sister’s best friends. They’re getting along fine, she’s older than him by a few years, has kids that are nearly grown, etc. Then my step mom gets into a suspicious car crash. My dad’s best friend (T), the one who got the wreckage of the car, said you couldn’t have lined it up more perfectly center with the tree if you had sat there with a tape measure and measured it.

So she calls my dad, crying, and he leaves M (girlfriend) for K (step mom). M warns that K will do it again, and indeed, she does. Using my dad’s drinking as the problem, she leaves him and takes my little half-brother (let’s call him A, he’s 9, 10 in May) and goes to live with her mom, just a short drive away. They try several times to work things out, but to no avail. She buys marriage books, etc. Then, all of a sudden, she comes back from a weekend getaway and it’s over. Then she admits that she’s been seeing a guy for about a month (2 weeks after they separated). So my dad calls M, who just broke up with her abusive and unemployed boyfriend, J. My dad and M get together, things are great, until K calls. Even if it’s about A, he gets moody and begins drinking.

Incident 1 my dad, T, and M are all at the house with me, and M leaves because she can’t handle his heavy drinking. My dad gets angry, and wrecks the house. In the process, he passes out in the bathroom. T and I find a bottle of Tylenol PM, spilled out over the counter. Thinking my dad killed himself, T calls 911. Turns out he’s fine. Over the next few weeks, another incident occurs, though nothing is wrecked; his gun accidentally discharges. He and M briefly break up, he starts seeing my mom for a week, then breaks up with her for M. K calls, crying for him back, and he goes to Starbucks to talk to her. This was just yesterday, and I was asleep when he came back, so I don’t know the results of that meeting, if she even showed up. He left his phone here, and the only sent text says, “I miss u, I want u and only u”, sent to K.

Also, this is worth mentioning: November of 2008, my dad received a credit card in the mail, a second CapitalOne. K forges my dad’s signature, charges it up, then pays a few payments, and ‘forgets’ about it. A week after my dad discovers this, she calls, crying for him back, as I mentioned.

I have repeatedly told my dad that if he goes back to K, I am leaving; I refuse to live with her after all she’s put me through, and, moreso, what she’s done to my dad. I am 15 years old, male. Just today my dad admits he’s leaving M for K.

My aunt, although she sympathizes, says to stay here because of school, despite the fact that he’s going back to K. I Also, I do not hate my little half-brother; I love him to death, no matter my feelings about K. I am merely sad he has to see all this drama.

As for now, M is coming in an hour to come get me, though I don’t know where I am going to go.
Hmm, M says that I will stay with her, though she is living with her adult daughter and her daughter’s husband. My dad will know right where to look…

Though yes, M says that she will ferry me to and from school.