3 Entry #3: Scared

Dear diary,

When I wake up, I have to make breakfast for me and my sister. I don't mind too much as I like cooking, but it can be quite a pain sometimes. I have to get up early in the morning and then make breakfast for me and my sister. Then, sometimes, if my dad has his morning headache, I'll have to make him breakfast too. If I don't, he takes his belt and hits me. I'm very scared. Not only for myself, but for my sister as well. What if father starts hitting her too? Mother doesn't really care if something happens to us. The last time father took out the belt, all mother said was, "Keep it down! I'm trying to sleep!". Do other families do this too? Why is this only happening to me? Earlier in the morning, father had his headache and I wasn't awake yet. So, mother had to make him his breakfast. Because of that, mother dragged me to the bathroom, put on a gas mask, took a bucket, mixed bleach and ammonia together, then left and locked me in with the bucket.

I screamed for help because it was getting harder to breathe an I guess a neighbor heard it because then the next thing we knew, the police were at our door. When my mother found out the police was there, she told me to "shut the hell up" or else. I'm seriously scared. Is something wrong? Why were the police there? Isn't this normal?

Regards,

Daiyu