Chapter 1: Anthony’s Journal
Good morning little journal book that I must write in even though I do not want to because it’s six o’clock in the morning. Although I am sleepy and I’d much rather go back to sleep, I am happy to be alive this glorious Friday morning. Today is Friday November 3, 2012, which means that it has been exactly two months since my mother gave you to me, surprising isn’t it? We’ve gotten through sixty days and two press conferences with one another. Mother’s been relying on us more than she usually has, exploiting our inner most thoughts and dreams. This may sound a little silly, but I miss the way mother used to be; she wasn’t always like this you know. There was once a time when she was one of the sweetest, most caring mothers whom any child would be more than lucky to have. She would take Airra and I to the park, have surprise picnics with us, even sat around and watched movies with us. All that changed the day our father left, it was almost like both of our parents left at the same time. She began working more, working harder, and barely spending any time with us. It started with a few night meetings when she would abruptly leave the house around nine or ten o’clock. The weekend meetings came next, and they usually lasted from seven am to twelve am every Saturday and Sunday. From those meetings came the Monday through Wednesday meetings that lasted from seven am to two am with only two thirty-minute breaks at twelve pm and eight pm. During which she had a choice to either come home and spend some time with Airra and I or continue to work. She chose to continue to work. Those meetings went on for about two and a half years then came her current schedule; three meetings a day every day from seven to two, two to ten, and ten to five. It’s a pretty messed up schedule I know, literally the only time that Airra and I see our mother is when she wakes us up for school in the morning. Then she disappears, and we don’t see her once more until the next morning. Sometimes I wish that she would stop and see how much this truly affects us.
