NaNo '11 Ko - FamilyI grew up hating my parents. It wasn't the kind of faux hate that teenagers everywhere have, it was genuine loathing. To put it lightly, my parents were assholes. My father was a misogynistic bastard who resented the fact that I'd been born a girl and had the audacity to wreck my mom's uterus leaving her unable to have the son he so rightly deserved. My mom was an alcoholic who resented me because my existence caused my father to resent her. There was a lot of resentment in my family. Unsurprisingly they were never very affectionate and paid as little attention to me as they could get away with, while somehow being simultaneously overbe
NaNo '11 Daniel - FamilyTrigger warning for mentions of spousal abuse.Family has always been a strange subject for me. Up until I was fourteen I was pretty sure I knew who my family was; I had a mother, a father, an annoying little sister and various aunts, uncles and cousins that I didn't really care about. I probably had a grandparent or two in there too somewhere. It seemed to be the same setup everyone else I knew had, so I didn't see any reason to question it until the previously mentioned annoying little sister said something she shouldn't have. It was something so simple too. "You're adopted.""Bullshit." We had been arguing over the fact that Lisa w