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This is a find story. Just a bit of feedback for you: there are about three times in the story where you wrote "day" instead of "dad." Here's one of the examples:

I was hoping that this will change my mom's new awful behavior towards my day, but it seemed like she likes it better going out in the night.

One of the most important things to do before posting is to re-read your work to look for errors. We hope this helps you on your writing journey!