I was at home for the summer, and I was trying to read in my bedroom. My sister had a bunch of friends over, though, and they were noisily playing anime-related games on a Nintendo 64. My sister had six controllers hooked up to the N64, and there were six girls all playing at once.
I decided I couldn't take it anymore: not the noise, not the fact that my sister had this really expensive setup for her game system (the games were played on a screen the size of a movie theater screen), not my sister's newfound popularity. I went into her "game room" and told all her friends to leave. I said they were all banned from the house, and that I didn't want to hear my sister ever playing her N64 again, either. I picked up all the games and took them to my bedroom. I also stole the N64 and my sister's debit card so that she couldn't go out and buy a new game system.
The next day, the girls tried to come back. They sat in the game room and started watching TV. I came in and started crying, saying I couldn't take it. I said I was "very mentally volatile right now" and that she should tell her friends to get out if she didn't want me to go completely crazy.
My parents were sitting in the dining room, watching a little black and a white TV. They told my sister to obey me.
The next day, though, she pulled the same trick. Her friends came knocking at our front door. I answered the door and told them to go away immediately because I was in danger of going insane. The girls tried to come in anyway.
I left the house. I started running. I decided I was going to kill myself. I wasn't sure how, but I figured that maybe if I ran long enough, I would just collapse and die. I told myself that if I didn't collapse somewhere along the way, I could just find a cliff somewhere and jump off of it.
I was running down the streets of the neighborhood. Sprinting, really. I had never had so much energy. There were joggers and walkers on the street and they waved to me, as though I was just out for a leisurely run. I kept thinking, "They have no idea. They have no idea."
