| i remember the first time my parents left me home alone.
i was about 5 or 6, and my parents left so my mom could practice driving for her road test. without telling me that they were gone. i don't remember what i was doing before, but i remember clearly what happened when i realized. first i searched the entire apartment. all 3 rooms of it. i even checked under the beds because i thought maybe my parents were playing hide and seek with me. after not finding them, i put on my shoes and went outside to search but i didn't wander far because suddenly i panicked. struck by intense, paralyzing fear. i sprinted back into the house locking all the doors climbing into the bed pulling blankets over me, fetal position, picturing hooded ninjas jumping out of the closet to get me. when they returned and found me, i stayed mad at them for a whole two hours.
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