Since I was 7 I knew my mother wasn't a good role model. She wanted to do drugs and drink every night while I raised my brother. All she did was tell us lies about my father who broke up with her.

My father got stuck in California{he is a truck driver} with his family. They were riding along with him and the truck broke down in Californa. He had lots of problems aswell in the past. But cleaned his act up and got better, raising my half brothers and he was better off in california while giving my mother child support for us too.

My mother on the other hand, not so much. She got her friend to get her a high paying job {yet she hasn't even graduated college but she isn't greatful for that and wants a promotion for every good thing she does} and married to my stepfather who is also a truck driver. I got two little step sisters so you would think she would become a better mother, right? Nope. She only cooks actual food when my step father comes around which is like once every two months. Other than that it is whatever I can make for them.

My mother complains we are broke, yet she brags about how much money we get. Us children have barely any clothes that actually fit, meanwhile she has a walk in closet full of expensive clothes, purses, jewelry, ect. When we come home it was me who helpped the kids with homework, she sat on the couch and said she was too tired from work. This goes on for years.

I thought it was normal until I was 12 and my friends told me it was not normal. Then the golden age of 13 was a year away to where I was able to choose who I lived with.

Still my mother told us lies, let us eat junk food for dinner, go in the same clothes to school that we wore before. We hated it but if we say anything to anyone she told all of us that CPS would give us to a black family that will beat us and rape us every day {Very racist, I know}. There was a major incident where my step-father pulled my hair to drag me to my mother too that was the night I almost ran away on if it wasn't for my friends helpping me out of it. Later on another incident happened where she threw a knife at us aswell. After that I hid them from my mother and protected them as best I could. My youngest step-sister {6 years old} has this horrible punishment of squating on a wall {like in a P.E exercise} over a dog bowl with a dictionary in her hands. Not a small one either, a thick and heavy one.

I got fed up and told my biological father and my grandma what was going on. They made arragements, I will go 'visit' him for summer break and then choose to live with him. We called CPS and they picked it up a day later, we found that strange but CPS has been called on her 4 other times.

When I called my mother to tell her she knew something was wrong, she used this high pitch sweet voice and the first thing she said was "I bought you some school shirts online". When we told her what I wanted she started yelling and saying 'Oh that never happened'.

Later on, we found out that she is throwing me under the bus for her reputation. She telling everyone that I am just some big lier and she did everything for me. She mixed her stories up and somehow from 'No one pulled your hair' turned to 'I pulled your hair', 'No knives were thrown at you' to 'it fell out the dishwasher and flipped over to ya'll'.

Now suddenly when they were cleaning my room they found accounts on youtube and instagram on how I planned to kill my mother. 1. Youtube doesn't allow that stuff 2.Why would I upload stuff like that to the world 3. I am suddenly a psychopath. Also this is happened before where she said she found poems from me of how I hated my father so much I wanted to kill myself over it

My brother is in the house, still. What really ticked me off was she tells him I back stabbed him and that I don't love him. In reality I made my father promise to get him out of there.

She makes them lie to CPS that I am the lier and that everything is A+. She took my brother's phone away so he isn't allowed to speak to me or my father at all. We got to talk to him through my grandma. The kids have gotten horrible since I left. My brother is rebelling against her as my step sisters are fighting constantly. Her friends are realising what I did compared to her. She almost got one kid in the hostpital because she didn't know what they couldn't eat.

I just want to know if I made the right decision to leave or shouldn't I just stayed there for the kids?