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#rebellious
“I don’t care! I’m going out and there is nothing you can do to stop me!” Mackenzie screamed as she rounded the corner and walked down the hallway, though her grandmother was right behind her. “Mackenzie Gabriella Reign Winters! You are not stepping foot out that front door.” The redhead completely ignored her grandmother. Her grandfather had tried to say it was just a phase and to ignore the fifteen-year-old. She was just being rebellious like her mother had been at that age, but her grandmother knew better. She was spiraling out of control and had been ever since the death of her father. The day he’d died had broken her. Not completely, but just enough for her not to really care about anything anymore and especially not the ‘rules’ that her grandparents were attempting to inflict on Mackcnzie and her two sisters. “You’re not my mother. She left. She didn’t want me, remember?! So stop acting like you are!” Mackenzie’s words seemed to be enough to cause the older woman to stop dead in her tracks because once she was out of the house, she glanced over her shoulder and no one seemed to be following her. As tears rolled down her cheeks, Mackenzie ran. She didn’t want to stop and she didn’t want to turn back, despite the two phone calls that she seemed to miss. She couldn’t breathe and she felt like she was having a panic attack, but she didn’t stop, not until she found herself running through the cemetery. Falling to her knees in front of her father’s gravestone, she buried her head in her hands and sobbed. She missed him. He hadn’t been the best father in the world, but he’d been her dad, and the day he died, she lost her mother too. She hadn’t even been there for the funeral and it broke her heart. “Daddy,” she whispered, wiping the tears from her eyes as her phone rang again. Slowly, the redhead pulled her ringing iPhone from her pocket and glanced down at the screen. Seeing her older sister’s name appear across the screen, she declined the call. She loved Violet, but she needed to be alone. She needed to talk to her father and talk to him about everything. “I wish you were here,” she began, shaking her head as she wiped her eyes. “So do I, Mack.” Hearing a voice caused Mackenzie to almost jump out of her skin as she turned her attention to the older female. “What are you doing here, Vi?” Walking towards her younger sister, Violet crouched down on the ground beside Mackenzie and shrugged her shoulders as her gaze fell on their father’s gravestone. “You always come here when you’re upset. I know it helps you to talk to dad, so I wanted to make sure that you were okay.” Biting down on the inside of her mouth, Mackenzie shook her head as another tear fell down her cheek before she shifted closer to her older sister. “I hate her. I’m never going home, never.” Mackenzie hadn’t felt like she had a home since the day her mother walked out and often found herself rebelling against everything that her grandparents said. She loved them, but they weren’t her parents and she reminded them of that at every opportunity. “Listen, M. I’m scared that whey will send you away if you don’t just do as you’re told. I heard them. They were talking about sending you to that shrink and if you don’t go..I think they are talking about sending you to a school for girls.” The words that her sister spoke sent a shockwave through her entire body and without saying a single word, she screamed as loud as she possibly could.
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