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Okay, well, here goes nothing.
I have this best friend... we'll call her Sally. Now, see, I love Sally to death (in a friendly way.) I can tell her anything, and vise versa. We hang out all the time at school, and we call each other a lot.
Now, notice I said we hang out a lot at school. Never outside school. Why? Her Dad is a control freak. Heres some examples of how weird he is ]: ...
1) He won't let her call people on the land phone. Instead, he makes her call on her really old cell phone. And yes, they do have a working land phone~
2) Shes fifteen, but her dad treats her like shes five. He sat in their van at school one day ruffling her hair and wouldn't leave her alone when she said so. He happened to do this in front of 100+ eleventh graders, who blatantly took the piss later on.
3) He won't let her outside the house after school. We don't know why. He claims she has to look after her mother, who just had a hysterectomy. I mean, I'm not protesting that~ but apparently, 'Sally' must get up every four hours, night& day, to give her mother medication. Why should she do it? And surely she doesn't need to care for her mother ********) In english, we had to get into groups and create a Romeo and Juliet play. Sally& I were naturally in a group together, as we work hard together and don't goof off. Our group won, and our prize was a five-dollar-gift card to Wendys (fast food resteraunt, don't know if the USA has a Wendys o:.) Well, Sally used, WITH PREMISSION, some props from her father. Like, swords and stuff. Well, when she brought her gift card home, her father took it away, claiming it was actually his since he let her use his props. wtf?
5) She always has bruises when she comes to school. When asked about it, she says she and her father "play fight." Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not play fighting if her father is hitting her hard enough to leave big bruises. That sounds like abuse to me.
6) Sally desperately needs new shoes. She wears worn out dress shoes to school, but her father will not let her get new shoes. Isn't that child cruelty...? I mean, clothing is a necessity. A child NEEDS clothing, and some decent shoes. I mean hell, something from Wal-Mart works, even. It seems to me that her father is depriving her from one of the necessity's a child needs.
So, my question is, what should I do about my friend? Theres obviously something wrong with her Dad. I can understand some parents are protective of their children and such, but this guy sounds off the rails, and abusive. I've met her father before, and I don't know... he just seems very odd. I have no idea what to do! I don't want to confront her and upset her, but I don't want her to silently suffer, either... I'm so confused, I just don't want to see my best friend hurt...
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