#would it be evil to stay home from family thanksgiving because I don't think I can do all my homework if I go. would it be selfish

[brown-little-robin]

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[wyntereyez]

I wasn't going to post another one today, but it turns out I want to talk about the Evil Step-Monster, so here we go, wyntereyez screams into the void Part Three.

If you thought my parents were bad, well, I urge you to look at the tags for this.

My Dad has the worst taste in women. I'd always assumed my dislike of his various girlfriends was just me hating them for not being my mother, but nope, they sucked. My Dad's current wife is the only sane one of the bunch and I like her just fine.

The first was a party girl. I don't think I ever met her when she didn't have a beer or wine glass in hand, already tipsy from the alcohol she'd consumed even before coming over. She was the kind of woman who wanted to part every night, staying out until about 3AM, and she'd relied on her teenage daughter to drive her home. Once they started dating, she expected my Dad to party with her - or to come pick her up at 3AM even though he had to be up for work at 6AM the next day. I found out later she'd been trying to convince my Dad to send us to live with our mother, so he broke up with her.

Then there was a single mother who was the most boring person on the planet. Seriously. And she wanted one thing: to find a good dad for her daughters. But she didn't want that good dad to come with children of his own. The whole time they dated, she did her best to separate him from us and have him spend time with her daughters. She would plan dates, then show up with her children for 'family time,' which my Dad's family wasn't invited to. He wasn't thrilled when he caught on. She had also been trying to convince my Dad to send us to live with our mother. We weren't unhappy to see her go.

Then came HER. The Bitch Queen, the Step-Monster, Destroyer of Families.

Have you ever met anyone where there's something about them that makes you instinctively want to stay far away from them because you know there's something BAD? That was my reaction to her. If only my Dad had felt the same.

She was a 'friend' of one of my aunt's. An acquaintance, really. She was attending college as an older student, and my aunt worked at that college. She had no friends, no local family, and my aunt felt sorry for her and invited her to Thanksgiving. When my family was introduced to her, I resolved to stay away.

Unfortunately, she'd taken one look at my Dad and decided to pursue him.

I guess they talked a lot. I don't know; this was a gathering of my Dad's side of the family, and I tend to stay away from them because the only conversation they want to have with me is "So, no baby yet?" (Seriously, some of them have NEVER talked to me about anything else.)

This was the year the first Harry Potter movie came out. My aunt made plans with my Dad to take us and her kids to see the movie the next night. SHE invited herself along as well, and sat next to my Dad.

I knew then my desperate, lonely Dad was doomed.

Didn't realize just how much we were, though.

I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong at first. I should have liked her. She was friendly enough. She'd traveled a lot. She'd worked at NASA of all places. In many ways, she was the opposite of my mother and exactly what I needed. So why didn't I like her?

At first, she just seemed a bit bossy and judgmental. She expected us to clean up her messes, which, fair, I guess, because she didn't live there. And she had Strong Opinions on what little she saw of our lives.

Whatever. We hid in my brother's room when she came over, because he had a new Final Fantasy game and we were watching him play through it.

It wasn't even six months before my Dad proposed. He asked me what I thought, and I told him it seemed kinda quick. He got mad and said, "What do you know about love?"

Nothing, but I sure as hell knew there was something I didn't like.

Sure enough, once she had what she wanted, her true face started coming through. She still wouldn't participate in household chores, and started snapping at us when we didn't all offer to clean up after her. She started trying to turn us against each other; choosing one of us to say was doing a good while the two other siblings were stupid, then the next day pick a different sibling to elevate above the others.

We think she's bipolar, but it's hard to tell because anytime anyone tried to diagnose her with anything, she'd say that doctor didn't know what they were talking about, or hated women, or hated her in particular because they were jealous of her for some reason. Whatever it was, it made her mean, it made her SCREAM, and there was absolutely no dealing with her because the things that made her happy one day would set her off on a screaming fit the next. I was scared to say anything around her.

It's because of her I ended up in a sub-par college. I had to get away from her as soon as I could, because I was actually contemplating suicide, something that had NEVER crossed my mind before. So I did what I hadn't wanted to; I applied for student loans, and went to the first college that took me, because I had to get away while I could.

I could go on forever about her, but I'll use bullet points again.

She constantly invaded our privacy because she thought we were plotting against her. She read my diary, and used what I said against me. My biggest fear for years had been turning out like my mother, so whenever I did something that displeased her, she would tell me I'm 'crazy like my mother' or 'as lazy as my mother.' She frequently told me I needed therapy, because she was absolutely convinced a therapist would tell me she was right and I should listen to her. Despite an actual therapist telling her the complete opposite.

She watched our finances. At the time, there was only one local bank, so we all used it. This was before smart phones, so we received bank statements in the mail. She would 'accidentally' open ours, because 'the envelopes all looked alike.' She was constantly on my case for not having as much money in the bank as I should. I was a college student working part time at a minimum wage job. I'd also taken to lying about working; I couldn't bear to be in the house with her, so I spent a lot of time saying I had to work and instead going to a movie theater and seeing a couple of movies because it meant I wasn't there with her. She'd even, at one point, GOTTEN A JOB AT OUR BANK to keep an eye on us.

She criticized us about spending money, but stole everything she could from my Dad. She took out a bunch of credit cards in his name and maxed them out without telling him. She also convinced him to refinance the house and get a mortgage for $20k, which he did. He gave her $7k of it and kept $13k for himself (he'd paid for the entire house himself, so it made sense he got more.) He used the money to buy a new, much-needed lawn mower and put the rest in the bank. She withdrew it. She spends money as fast as she gets it, and even right up before my Dad moved, the house phone was getting calls from debt collectors looking for her because she'd taken out loans or rented things and refused to make payments.

She couldn't keep a job. One year, my Dad had 22 W-2s for her. That's basically one new job every two weeks. And she'd lose them for the stupidest reasons. Once she refused to put her cellphone in a locker. Her excuse was that 'my husband's children might call me!' She'd never given us her phone number.

She was a bully. She even found ways to bully me about the childhood she wasn't part of. Remember me saying before my growth spurt I was chubby? She found photos of that, and howled with laughter over them. "Look how fat you were!" she'd said. FUCK YOU.

She wouldn't help around the house. At all. She seemed to be under the impression that step children were adoring servants who'd do everything she asked, and not people who'd (FINALLY) hit the stage of cleaning up after themselves and not want to be responsible for the messes of someone who refused to do anything.

She liked to 'trick' people. She knew I didn't eat sea food. So one Thanksgiving, she put oysters in the stuffing without telling anyone. I'd noticed that they'd had a horrible taste and scraped mine into the trash. Later, I overheard her gloating to my Dad how she'd tricked me into eating oysters.

She was paranoid. Once, during a home visit from college, she wasn't there, but she left a huge rant on the answering machine about how my Dad shouldn't let me go through her drawers. I've never gone through her drawers in my life. Guess which one of us is actually guilty of that?

What's yours is hers, but God help you if you touch something of hers. She'd using something without permission, break it, then just say, "well, buy another one!" You're the one who broke it!!!!

She lied. Constantly. Anything to make us look bad to my Dad. I overheard her once on the phone telling my Dad I had begged her to take me to work on a snowy day. Uh, no? I'd called in because the roads were impassible, and I'd learned never to ask for anything of her, no matter how reasonable the request. Several times, my Dad was sent out to California for his job. She would not let us talk to him on the phone. She'd snatch the phone the moment it rang, hide in the bedroom and talk, then come out after hanging up. Or she'd call him and not tell us. She told him we didn't want to talk to him. This was particularly devastating to my sister.

She's a victim. The entire world was against her. Doctors hated her and feared her superior intelligence. Women were jealous of her for having my Dad. Coworkers were nasty to her because she was better at their jobs despite her being newly hired. She was the smartest person to ever live, and the world was against her for it. She left my Dad finally because she'd drained him dry - but she told her brother my Dad had cruelly kicked her out. And then she contacted my Dad asking him to BACK UP HER STORY if her angry brother called him.

I'm pretty sure she killed my dog and my cat, because she didn't want them inside because they weren't hers. I KNOW she killed one of my Dad's dogs because she knew so much more than the vet.

This woman still haunts me to this day. Any time I hear someone speak in the same strident tone as her, I freeze in terror. She's unblockable, because she's one of those people who deletes and creates new accounts and 'friends' whenever she takes it into her head to terrorize people she hasn't seen in about a decade now. My Facebook is private, but I STILL get a chill of fear every time I see a new message, because it could be her.

And yet, it still took me forever to realize this was ACTUAL ABUSE, because she'd never lain a hand on me. And society likes to tell us that all women are good, actually, and NEVER abusive.

[snarkythewoecrow]

I believe in finding a silver lining to everything and while the news I just got sucks, it's also saving my ass from a horrible dinner with my mother. You have to understand, my mother is evil incarnate, her reaction to my daughter coming out was to tell her she wouldn't get into heaven and would spend eternity in hell. And you see, I don't tolerate her shit, I can usually shut her down, but on holidays I deal because my dad is a very lonely old man who just wants to see the family. He was in a very bad accident a few years back and lost a large chunk of his brain, wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle kids, and now he's not the same. He struggles and doesn't understand things well. My mother ignores him and has told me she can't wait for him die. Brings me back to the point she's evil. See, she went to her timeshare for a vacation in the middle of covid because again, selfish bitch. So yeah. I had begrudgingly agreed to visit them on Thanksgiving even though it meant dealing with her. She planned it outdoors on the back lawn to stay safe. I had been trying to think of a good way to excuse us from going. Until tonight! I got a call from my daughter's school and guess what? Covid in her classroom and it just rescued me from Thanksgiving. We get to stay home guilt free. There are silver linings even in the worst situations.

[rebeccawritesbooks]

Regina was invited to celebrate Xmas or Thanksgiving with the charmings by Emma, however last minute, Snow and David decide they don't want her there. Regina thinks she going to have another thanksgiving or christmas alone.

Thanks for the Christmas prompt :)

I was only going to do this in one part, but my writing has gotten away from me so I’m not sure how many parts this will be in, I’ll post the second part here the link will be posted soon!

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“We don’t want her here Emma.” Snow said, hesitantly sitting down on the couch, next to her daughter.

“What? You were all for it last month when I asked you” Emma frowned.

“Yes, for you, but your father and I have talked and we don’t want her here.”

“So you wait until the last minute to tell me this! It’s Christmas day Mom…h-how-“

“I’ve already phoned Regina and informed her that she isn’t welcome.”

“You did what?!” Emma shrieked standing up quickly.

Emma couldn’t believe what was happening right now, in a matter of minutes, this Christmas day had turned from her first Christmas with Regina and her family and something she had been looking forward to for weeks, to one of the worst days to happen.

For a lot of the time at Christmas, when Emma was a child, she was shut away in her room in her foster homes and not allowed to join in with the festivities. Emma knew that Regina had similar things happen to her when she was growing up, so she knew this news would be really hard for her.

“We told her she’s not welcome here, not for Christmas anyway, she was very understanding.” David commented walking into the room, standing behind his wife and squeezing her shoulders.

“Well yes, I’m sure she was understanding…she’s used to being alone at this time of year and for her birthday and for any kind of celebration.” Emma took a breather trying to control her anger but not managing it very well “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!” Emma shouted in the next second.

Before either Snow or Charming could answer, Henry came walking down the stairs as he wiped the sleep from his eyes.

“Ma? What’s going on?” Henry yawned, now standing next to Emma.

“You’re grandparents have uninvited your Mom to Christmas.” Emma fumed folding her arms.

“Good.” Henry replied throwing himself on to the couch next to his grandmother.

“Good?” Emma asked, feeling rather shocked at her sons comment.

“Yeah, I don’t want her here Mom, she’s evil and she’s never going to change.”

“Henry!”

“No, he’s right Emma, how could you expect us to accept her after everything she did to us? To you? To Henry?” Charming said as he came and sat on the other side of Henry, all of them watching Emma pace as her face grew angrier by the second.

“You know what? If that’s how you all feel then maybe I will just go spend Christmas with Regina. How about that.” Emma replied.

“What? You can’t do that!?” Snow shrieked.

“And why not?” Emma argued.

“Because, we will be without you for Christmas Emma. You shouldn’t be without your family, at this time of year.”

“And yet you’re absolutely okay with leaving Regina completely alone.”

Emma was astonished at her parent’s words, as well as Henry agreeing with them about his own mother. The woman who raised him, she just couldn’t understand it, how could he not accept her even now.

“She’s used to it.” Snow replied.

“So that makes it okay? Anyway with that attitude ever thought about the fact I am also used to being alone Mary-Margret.” Emma argued, standing up and storming out the room.

“Grandma, do you think Ma’s going to go with Regina?” Henry asked.

“I hope not Henry. I hope not.”

“So do I.” Henry replied cuddling up to his grandma

Emma came back through, dressed and with a bag packed.

“Where are you going Emma?” David asked jumping up.

“To Regina’s. You can’t stop me, I am 30 years old.”

“But-“ Snow tried.

“NO! NO BUTS! I AM GOING!” Emma shouted “I love her…” 

“YOU WHAT?!” Snow, David and Henry shouted in unison.

“I love her, oh and one more thing we’re a couple, now kid are you coming with me or staying here?” Emma frowned.

“Staying here.” Henry grumbled holding onto Snow, hoping Emma wouldn’t drag him out the house.

“Fine, you stay here and if you change your mind, you know where to find me.” And with the Emma stormed out the house, slamming the door behind her.

“Did she say they’re a couple?” Snow asked, unsure if she had heard him correctly.

“Yeah…” Both David and Henry replied.

***

Regina had been so excited for Christmas, it would be the first Christmas since Henry was 8 that she wouldn’t be alone, well that was until she received a phone call from Snow White telling her in no uncertain terms, that she wasn’t welcome for Christmas.

It’s not to say she wasn’t expecting it, but it still hurt all the same to have something she was looking forward to be taken away, just like that.

Christmas morning came, Regina was alone, no Emma, no Henry, just her. As no one was going to be with her or she was going to be with no one for today, Regina decided to stay in her pyjama’s and to do some paperwork. After all it was just her for the day.

***

Emma was fuming about the whole situation not just her parent’s uninviting Regina, also Henry, she was so angry with him for agreeing with her parents. The blonde knew Regina had changed and yet the only people who couldn’t see it were her own parents and her son.

Emma left the loft as quickly as she could slamming the door behind her, she flew down the stairs, out of the building and over to her yellow bug that was parked right outside her parents apartment.

Emma threw herself into the car, placing her bag on the passenger seat, with immense anger and frustration before shutting her door and speeding off down the road to the mayor’s mansion.

She was driving way over the speed limit that she had to do an emergency stop as she arrived at Regina’s.

[parrilla-my-swanqueen]

Regina was invited to celebrate Xmas or Thanksgiving with the charmings by Emma, however last minute, Snow and David decide they don't want her there. Regina thinks she going to have another thanksgiving or christmas alone. Then on the day Emma has a massive argument with her parents and Henry about how the treat Regina and she then turns up on Regina's door and they spend the day together. You chose if they are together or not.

Thanks for the Christmas prompt :)

I was only going to do this in one part, but my writing has gotten away from me so I’m not sure how many parts this will be in, I’ll post the second part here the link will be posted soon!

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“We don’t want her here Emma.” Snow stated,hesitantly sitting down on the couch, next to her daughter.

“What? You were all for it last month when I askedyou” Emma frowned

“Yes, for you, but your father and I have talkedand we don’t want her here.”

“So you wait until the last minute to tell methis! It’s Christmas day Mom…h-how-“

“I’ve already phoned Regina and informed her thatshe isn’t welcome.”

“You did what?!” Emma shrieked standing up quickly

Emma couldn’t believe what was happening rightnow, in a matter of minutes, this Christmas day had turned from her firstChristmas with Regina and her family and something she had been looking forwardto for weeks, to one of the worst days to happen.

For a lot of the time at Christmas, when Emma wasa child, she was shut away in her room in her foster homes and not allowed tojoin in with the festivities. Emma knew that Regina had similar things happento her when she was growing, so she knew this new would be really hard for her.

“We told her she’s not welcome here, not forChristmas anyway, she was very understanding.” David commented walking into theroom, standing behind his wife and squeezing her shoulders.

“Well yes, I’m sure she was understanding…she’sused to being alone at this time of year and for her birthday and for any kindof celebration.” Emma took a breather trying to control her anger but notmanaging it very well

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!” Emmashouted in the next second.

Before either Snow or Charming could answer, Henrycame walking down the stairs as he wiped the sleep from his eyes.

“Ma? What’s going on?” Henry yawned, now standingnext to Emma

“You’re grandparents have uninvited your Mom toChristmas.” Emma fumed folding her arms.

“Good.” Henry replied throwing himself on to thecouch next to his grandmother.

“Good?” Emma asked, feeling rather shocked at hersons comment.

“Yeah, I don’t want her here Mom, she’s evil andshe’s never going to change.”

“Henry!”

“No, he’s right Emma, how could you expect us toaccept her after everything she did to us? To you? To Henry?”

Charming came and sat on the other side of Henry,all of them watching Emma pace as her face grew angrier by the second.

“You know what? If that’s how you all feel thenmaybe I will just go spend Christmas with Regina. How about that.” Emma stated

“What? You can’t do that!?” Snow shrieked

“And why not?” Emma argued

“Because, we will be without you for ChristmasEmma. You shouldn’t be without your family, at this time of year.”

“And yet you’re absolutely okay with leavingRegina completely alone.”

Emma was astonished at her parent’s words, as wellas Henry agreeing with them about his own mother. The woman who raised him, shejust couldn’t understand it, how could he not accept her even now.

“She’s used to it.” Snow replied

“Yeah, so am I Mary-Margret.” Emma argued,standing up and storming out the room.

“Grandma, do you think Ma’s going to go withRegina?” Henry asked

“I hope not Henry. I hope not.”

“So do I.” Henry replied cuddling up to hisgrandma

Emma came back through, dressed and with a bagpacked.

“Where are you going Emma?” David asked jumping up

“To Regina’s. You can’t stop me, I am 30 years old.”

“But-“ Snow tried

“NO! NO BUTS! I AM GOING!” Regina screamed “I loveher…” Emma admitted

“YOU WHAT?!” Snow, David and Henry shouted inunison

“I love her, oh and one more thing we’re a couple,now kid are you coming with me or staying here?” Emma frowned

“Staying here.” Henry grumbled holding onto Snow,hoping Emma wouldn’t drag him out the house.

“Fine, you stay here and if you change your mind,you know where to find me.” And with the Emma stormed out the house, slammingthe door behind her.

“Did she say they’re a couple?” Snow frowned

“Yeah…” Both David and Henry replied

***

Regina had been so excited for Christmas, it wouldbe the first Christmas since Henry was five that she wouldn’t be alone, well thatwas until she received a phone call from Snow White telling her in no uncertainterms, that she wasn’t welcome for Christmas.

It’s not to say she wasn’t expecting it, but itstill hurt all the same to have something she was looking forward to be takenaway, just like that.

Christmas morningcame, Regina was alone, no Emma, no Henry, just her. As no one was going to bewith her or she was going to be with no one for today, Regina decided to stayin her pyjama’s and to do some paperwork. After all it was just her for theday.

***

Emma was fuming about the whole situation not justher parent’s uninviting Regina, also Henry, she was so angry with him foragreeing with her parents. The blonde new Regina had changed and yet the onlypeople who couldn’t see it were her own parents and her son.

Emma left the loft as quickly as she couldslamming the door behind her, she flew down the stairs, out of the building andover to her yellow bug that was parked right outside her parents apartment.

Emma threw herself into the car, placing her bagon the passenger seat, with immense anger and frustration before shutting herdoor shut and speeding off down the road to the mayor’s mansion.

She was driving way over the speed limit that shehad to do an emergency stop as she arrived at Regina’s.