Dear SS,

Learn to control yourself. Your childlike behavior and beligerance only makes things more difficult for you. Was it really necessary to punch the table when I told you we were out of ice cream? I could have let that go, if you had just picked up the books you knocked off the floor and put them back. I didn't exactly hold a gun to your head and make you punch the table resulting in the mess on the floor, so it's not my fault, and I'm not your maid.

Secondly, throwing the couch cusions around, trashing the living room, refusing to do a simple time out in the corner and instead talking back, screaming at me, trying to push my buttons means you'll just lose your precious xbox for said amount of time. You know the drill, if I have to start counting to 3, you should be up before I even utter number one, not staring me down waiting for me to get to three and then flipping the eff out when you damn well know you had PLENTY of time to get off your ass and do as you were told.

And last...now the Xbox is gone, the plug hidden because you decided to move it into your room and turn it on after you knew it was supposed to be off for the rest of the night, you decide that the damage to your bicycle from leaving it outside in the backyard at my old house is MY fault, and I OWE YOU $15 because you were not responsible enough to put it in the garage. I chose to ignore your ranting, because I have 4 other kids that deserve my attention. And that note you wrote me, because I refuse to pay you, and because I chose not to talk to you in your state - hahahahahaha. So, your BM turned the "piece of crap bike" into something, saving and working on it and I don't care because you "bet I have no idea how hard it is to work at *chain coffee shop*" and save that money when it costs just $30 in gas to go to work. You know what?

BITE ME.

Your BM doesn't know what it's like to support 3 kids, alone, working full time, taking care of a special needs child, having to choose between paying the electric bill or putting food on the table because child support wasn't paid. Your BM lost custody of you because she chose drugs over you - and yay, she's sober now, but she didn't exactly work her butt off to save for you to stay the whole summer, thinking her unemployment would be enough so awesome! You got to make me and my time with my kids miserable. I don't do things like buy my kids crap they don't need when money is tight because I want them to appreciate the things they have, and earn the things they have. If this bike meant SO much to you, why is it still sitting outside, in the rain, as it has been for the last month when the garage is 3 steps away?

Well, have fun "earning" the money to pay for the repairs on your bike since you won't be playing Xbox. Maybe you'll understand exactly what your mother did if YOU pay to fix it, and YOU put it back together and YOU care for it.

You're 12 years old for pete's sake - grow the eff up.

your soon to be stepmother.