Alright, here we go.
For years, my parents have expected me to be some child prodigy. Because of that, I've been on a tight set of rules. All the kids around me bullied me when I was younger because I couldn't do all the things they could do. I was the kid with the super strict parents. When I hit middle school, it happened again. Around seventh grade the combined expectations of my parents and constant harassment from peers pushed me to a very dark and sad phase of my life. In eight grade I was a loner. When I hit my freshman year I fell in love with my best friend. We were incredibly happy for seven months and things were okay. But my parents didn't like the way she was raised and thought it was affecting me too much. She's also older than me, so she wanted to go to the amusement park or the mall or movies and I couldn't do that. My parents also raised the bar on my expectations way too high. This intimidated my mate and she couldn't break my sudden depressed state. It seemed like she gave up and went off to work this summer. She met a boy there. He's 18, living on his own, and can go do those fun things. We agreed to split up for the summer because we were constantly fighting. Since then I've been very upset and she's hardly said a word to me at all. She's with that boy now and seems happy. I'm glad she is, but I wish it was with me and not him. And I kept thinking that if my parents hadn't kept me from going out and being a regular teenager instead of expecting me to follow their rules from their childhoods, then she'd still be with me. They took my phone which I used to communicate with friends. They took my computer which I used for work. They still haven't given me any of that back and it's been two months. I've done everything they want. I just want to be free of them. They stole my mate, their stealing my childhood, they're making me miserable every day of my life and I don't want to deal with it anymore. I miss my mate so much... I still love her more than the world. I want her back. We had big plans for the future. My parents have always done this to me. I'm constantly upset. It's getting old.
