Birthday
My sister mia was always the sister that would bask in recognition of her special day also known as a birthday. Me personally I never really cared for my own birthday to be considered significant because bad things always happened on that day and I stopped recognizing it as special as it usually made me feel sad and unimportant on that day. My mother had came home for a few weeks now that she had to stop her relationships since the cops knew our family by first name basis by now and mia had just came back from her stay in juvenile detention center that she was sentenced to for her wonderful idea of a five finger discount she thought was a brilliant idea trying to steal barbie clothes for my dolls that I liked.
Mia had always been on the other side of the law in how she handled things and her perception of what was necessary and what was essential. She has stolen my dad's checks and wrote bad checks and now in juvenile for stealing and was sentenced six months .where she made a glorious name for herself in starting fights and being her usual unruly self.
Paula had been running around taking Mia's spotlight with the two brothers that lived down the street. You could say she was enjoying the lack of competition now that mia was locked up at age fourteen. My sister Paula tended to follow the same guy crowd as mia and the guys would date her and when mia grew bored with them Paula was shortly behind as a willing participant of the being seconds club. It was like they were constantly in competition with each other over the attention of the boys that ran their circle which was a average size of eight boys that was cycled between the two competing sisters. Mia would tease and Paula would please and that was the order of the group the frequented.
When mia came home she had a fire about her as her time in juvenile didn't do much to curve her morale. But today was Mia's fifteenth birthday. Mia had been allowed to drive my mom's car as long as she didn't wreck it and this day it was no different.
My mom and Paula thought it would be a good idea that they pretend mia didn't exist and act like they completely forgot about the one day that meant the most to her. In the past Melina never celebrated a birthday alone on her birthday. She was forced to share a birthday celebration with Mia even though she was born in June and mia in July. Melina never had a birthday that's was her own and when they would get visitations in the system to visit their mom and dad at the park while the investigation was still ongoing. It would be Mia's birthday that they would celebrate on and poor Melina had to sit back seat to presents and cake as she also had to share a cake with Mia .
This was one of the reasons Melina felt her life was insignificant even her birthday was not her own. Mia was treated like the only legitimate daughter of the McNally family as she was showered by her paternal grandparents as the first born child of their family. Jamie was treated like a half breed since she had a different father than mia's and Paula and Melina were skeptical heritage as they always accused their mother at being a lose woman that was similar to a jezebel. Johnny and Brenda McNally did not like their sons wide much as she was not what they wanted for their youngest son Paul .
Her skin was too dark for their likeing and he mouth was too sharp for their tolerance. When Paul brought her home to his parents they were not welcoming of her at first sight. And any children she had besides mia wasn't welcomed either. This would be an endless cycle to their hate for my mother as a woman who bewitched her son.
Melina was never a fan of her grandmother Brenda as when she came over to visit she would make them go to a room and tell them not to touch anything and Jamie would be put outside of the trailer and wasn't allowed inside. There was many injustices done. This would be an ongoing problem between my mother and my his parents.
The morning if Mia's fifteenth birthday Paula and my mother thought it was a brilliant idea to act like they weren't aware it was Mia's birthday and later on throw her a party. For some sick reason their sense of humor was cruel. It was meant to cause harm and imflict emotional pain. A lesson my mother taught us that being emotionally unavailable was her way of being funny. Paula and my mother ignored her and no one told Melina this was the plan. Melina was always excited about birthdays and she would love to be the first one to tell someone happy birthday. She would wait until midnight and wake them up to say happy birthday.
Melina didn't see mia for half the day and when she saw her older sister she jumped up and yelled happy birthday to her sister all excited. This did not bode well with her mother as she felt Melina ruined her plans as Melina got backhanded in her face as slapped a few more times and she began to cry. Melina didn't understand why she was being punished. Mia screamed at her mother for hitting her sister for only saying happy birthday to her sister on her day as she grabbed her little sister and her sisters cat and grabbed tuna and bottles of water as she took her little sister out of the house as she took the car keys and reversed out of the house as mia took it upon herself not only to steal the car but kidnap her sister and her little cat too.
Mia went on a joy ride for two days as mia planned to run away to her grandparents house but she had to make a stop to help her friend leave her home to run away. Back in those days vehicles had two sets of keys . One for the trunk and one for the ignition. Mia wasn't paying attention as she broke off the ignition key in the trunk trying to open it and my mother reported her car stolen and when they found the two girls mia was hotwiring the car to keep going with her road trip.
Mia went to her grandparents where she refused to obey and come home as she was admitted to a psychiatric facility because my mother couldn't control her in the end and Melina was taken back home and her stripped the entire room of everything except for a sheet . She didn't even have a light bulb . She wasn't allowed to leave the room except for the bathroom and food was served in the room when she got food to eat. Melina was removed from the house and when she came back her mother punished her for two weeks.
Melina realized her mother punished her for something mia did and she took the punishment. This would be a common occurrence when her mother couldn't control her sisters Melina would be punished for things they did . Everything that her sisters did her mother would be harder on Melina as she couldn't control the other two girls. This was due to her wanting to be her girls friends instead of a mother. Melina thought it was normal to take punishment for her sisters and you would think she would resent her mother for all the things that was done to her but Melina didn't care what happened to her anymore.
She became in a state of mind damn if she did and damn if she didn't. This was her reality. When Melina wasn't sleeping away boredom and hunger she was meditating as the hunter checked into her mind from time to time to see when she could come out to train as she wasn't allowed to leave the house. The hunter grew worried for his little one as he hadn't seen her for weeks and when school was an issue she would have to ask for her clothes and things she needed as she wasn't allowed to have as a mental mind screw was my mother's favorite thing to do as punishment. Melina knew if she faught her mother it would be the fight her mother wanted. Her mother liked to be mean and like fight as spankings were not a form of punishment.
When she had a problem with one of her daughters a good old fashioned knock out drag out was her method of punishment. Paula and her would fight with her and tare up the house where we had a bunch of broken furniture around the house as fighting to solve problems were encouraged as a method of working things out between daughter and mother. And if you didn't fight back you just got hit until they wanted to stop or until they felt better.
This is what her mother considered to constructive punishment.but in reality it was aggervated assult . But my mother didn't see it that way . She thought this was how to be a mother.