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Reddit.... I need your help. I don't know what to do anymore.

I am currently at my mother and stepfathers vacation house in Michigan, and am at my wits end. I am 14 years old, and cannot yet drive, so I am unable to leave on my own. I am locked in an upper room of the house because of a situation that has spiraled out of control. I cannot get into contact with my father or stepmother because they are both away on business.

If I may, I am going to explain exactly what happened. I am upstairs, hanging out playing minecraft on our xbox with my six year old brother. My twelve year old brother, whom I am constantly bullied by for being overweight and lazy enters the room with his friend. I ignore them as they continue to be more and more annoying ("dude minecraft is soooooooo stupid hurrdydurrr") and my brother begins to throw a ball at me. The third time he throws it at me and picks it back up, I walk over to him and try to rip the ball out of his hands because I'm pissed (I have a very short temper). He flips out and kicks me in the balls. I push him down and wrestle his legs and arms into an immovable state on the floor and he begins to cry. I let go and he tries to kick, punch, just hurt me in any way possible and lands another kick to my balls.

I pin him to the floor again and bend his arm back (not enough to hurt him, just to get him to stop) and get up and walk away, as that is how I deal with my anger, walk it off, get away from the problem.

During this whole thing, however, my six year old brother ran downstairs and told my stepfather that I was putting the other in a headlock, and punching him, calling him names, which I wasn't. I was only defending myself.

My stepfather calls me down and just yells at me to "SIT ON THE COUCH NOW!". I tell him no, that is dumb. I didn't do anything, I only defended myself. He interrupts me mid sentence grabs the xbox controller I had in my hand and throws it at the couch and tells me to "sit on the fucking couch now." I tell him no, my voice is rising at this point. He walks away, sticks his head in my brothers and I shared room, and says something to them. I yell at him "why are you just telling him off but punishing me for what he did?!" I am so frustrated at this point I begin to cry. I am (almost always) the one being punished for something he did to me, and have decided at this point that I don't give a flying fuck anymore how they punish me as long as I make them see how much I am blamed for things. He then walks up to me and tells me I can't use the computer or xbox or have my phone for the rest of the summer because I'm "talking back". What the fuck? I'm trying to tell you what happened and you're just yelling at me.

He walks outside, ignoring me, and starts talking to my mom about something else. I yell at them, because I am so fucking fed up with all the bullying my stepdad does and all the bullshit excuses my mom makes up to justify what he says or does. I say, "Oh so I get kicked in the balls twice and all they get is a telling off but IM the one that gets punished?" So then we go back and forth for a few minutes before they tell me I'm grounded in my room for a week as well. I'm screaming at them now, NO! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME! THIS WHOLE THING WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF YOU'd JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR TWO SECONDS!

Again, they tell me I'm talking back. And ignore me.

Half an hour later, after we all calm down, I try talking to my mom after my stepdad took away the computer from me when I was using it. I try to ask her why I was and am being punished. She tells me that if I want to, I can go talk to my stepdad and work it out, but, I know for a fact (from past experience) that he just gets angrier and angrier. I try to explain that to her and ask her if she can come with me, but she just explodes at me and tells me "I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO YOUR CRAP ANYMORE. GO TO HIM IF YOU WANT THIS WORKED OUT." I'm crying so much at this point and am so fucking frustrated that we get into a screaming match where she takes my phone away from me. So, I do the only thing I can think of at this point to get her to not walk away from me-- I take my phone out of her room and sit there as she yells at me to give it to her. I try to say to her that I will if she'll listen to me, but she says "That's it. (stepdad) get in here, I'm gonna need your help taking it from him."

He grabs my arms, but I twist his away from me as I roll away. I keep trying to talk to them both, but neither will listen to reason anymore. They push me up the stairs and in front of the guest room, and my mother tells me to get in the room or else. She grabs my arm, and I push her hand off (lightly, so as not to hurt her). She then says that if I don't go in the room now, she's going to call the police on me for pushing her hand off my arm and send me off to reform school.

I go in, scared out of my mind of what would happen if she did.

I have been sitting in my room crying and redditing for the last six hours.

Reddit, I need your help. What do I do? I can't stay with this woman anymore, she is constantly screaming at everyone and acting almost constantly angry at everyone and everything. But most of all, she seems to take it out on me. My stepfather just seems to egg her on in whilst getting drunker and drunker (he almost always has a glass of alcohol in his hand after lunch) until they are both bullying me and my siblings (I have four) into submission.

Reddit.

I don't know what to do anymore.

I just want to get away from this but I'm so scared.

please help me.

Posted Jun 24, 2012, 12:13 AM UTC

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