A Note to My Parents

After writing this, I realized a few things I would like to say to my parents:

How could you be so insensitive after everything that happened and make Jack and I sleep in the same bed while on vacation? Did you even try to look up what to do in these situations? Were you too embarrassed to go out and buy a book on the topic — to Google what you could have done to help in this situation? What the future would be like? If it was even possible for Jack to go to jail when adult rapists don’t even get sentenced the majority of the time? Did you ever stop and think that you could possibly be traumatizing me more by protecting Jack? Do you ever think about the fact that our family is built on a huge lie because you couldn’t just be honest and confront what happened? That maybe there was a reason why I started acting out in high school?