She Started Hiding Out In A Secret Crawl Space In Her Bedroom Whenever Her Stepmom Wanted Her To Babysit, So Now Her Stepmom Is Accusing Her Of Sneaking Out, And Her Dad Thinks Her Stepmom Is Crazy
A few years ago, this young 16-year-old girl lost her mother in a bad accident. So, ever since then, she has been living with her father.
Following the loss of her mom, though, her dad started attending a grief group. There, he ultimately met her new stepmother, Josie– who he married last year.
Josie has two children– two boys who are 8 and 6-years-old– who also now live with her and her father. Apparently, though, she despises living with her stepbrothers.
She claims that Josie’s eldest son has severe ADHD and is always making messes, breaking household items, and having meltdowns over tiny situations. Plus, her younger stepbrother reportedly acts similarly– although he is “not quite as bad.”
Regardless, both boys always invade her personal space by going into her bedroom, taking her things, or breaking her belongings. And she just cannot deal with it.
“I babysat them once when our parents were dating, and I would rather jump off a building than ever have to watch them again, I swear to God,” she said.
“Josie offered to pay me when they were dating, but I said no.”
Although, ever since her dad and Josie tied the knot and they all moved in together, the pressure for her to babysit her stepbrothers has been mounting.
Apparently, Josie will try to make her watch the kids by running out to the store for an hour and leaving her there. Or, her new stepmom will just load her up with a bunch of chores whenever she doesn’t watch the kids.
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She claims that she already has other chores to do, though, so it’s not like she is doing nothing around the house.
“I just want some time to myself on the weekend. And my dad doesn’t see it happen, so he thinks I’m exaggerating,” she vented.
Ever since she moved into a new house with her dad and Josie, though, she realized that she might be able to get some alone time in a secret hiding spot.
She was given the smaller bedroom in the house, and inside, she realized there was a small hatch that led into a side attic.
No one else knows about the little attic, either. So, she began keeping some personal belongings– that she did not want anyone else to touch– inside.
The space is also large enough for her to lay down a blanket and some pillows to read or go on her laptop without any interruptions.
Eventually, she then got the idea to start hiding out in the little attic to avoid Josie whenever her dad was not home. And, for a while, it worked.
Her stepmom would call her name and even go looking for her in her bedroom. But she was never found.
One day, though, her dad wound up texting her and asking where she was. She responded by saying she was in her bedroom, and she also sent her phone’s location so her dad could see she was telling the truth.
Then, before her dad got home, she slipped out of the little attic, laid down on her bed, and started reading a book. So, once her dad walked it, it looked as though she had been there all along.
If you could not have guessed, though, Josie became furious and started questioning her about where she had gone. She claimed that she had been in her room the entire time, though, and her dad even showed Josie the phone location to back her up.
But Josie still insisted that she was lying and snuck out of the house. So, ever since then, her dad and Josie have been in a huge argument– with Josie insisting that she was not home and her father accusing his wife of lying and taking it out on her because she would not babysit her stepbrothers.
“I do feel a little bad now,” she revealed, “because I am making Josie look kind of nuts.”
“But I also don’t want to babysit or spend my entire Saturday doing chores.”
Still, she has been left wondering whether making her stepmother “look crazy” to avoid babysitting her stepbrothers makes her a total jerk or not.
Is it her responsibility to watch Josie’s children? Do you think she is entitled to some alone time on the weekends if she completes her chores? Should she keep up her hideaway stunt or come clean? What would you do?
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