HGlock SW - Nikki.pdf (2025) [WRITING]

There were some things that parents just aren't meant to do. Things that foster resentment and frostiness between parent and descendant. Invasions of privacy, emotional manipulation, helicopter parenting, unfair rules and restrictions based with no logic behind them, instead based solely on the will of the parent to control their children. Of course, if you asked Cecilia Devis, parent to Nikki Devis, she'd gladly inform you that it was her utmost duty as a parent to invade her child's privacy.

For nineteen long years, Cecilia had forced and manipulated Nikki at every turn, all in the name of boosting her own ego, of dominating Nikki for no other reason than for the fact it made her feel powerful to have that control, to have say over every single part of Nikki's life, to try and shape her into a mold of what Cecilia herself wished she was, a mold that Nikki would never fit in.

Of course, this is a fallacy. Parents will never be able to make their children fit into this mold. They cannot even truly maintain control over their children, they have but 18 years of tyranny available to them before the child can legally vanish from their lives.

This is just what Nikki Devis does on her first day of being an adult. Frustrated and burning with years of resentment, she gathers her personal belongings in the dark of night, scrawls a nasty, but utterly truthful message on the wall of her bedroom in permanent marker, and flees from her childhood home, eagerly packing her suitcase in a trunk and greeting the friend from school that has offered to shuttle her out of the province and provide her with temporary shelter. She doesn't say a proper goodbye and only joyous laughter is to be found, not a tear to be shed.

Of course, Cecilia wakes up, she rages and calls the police and does everything you'd expect of a person like her. But Nikki is an adult now, every person besides Cecilia that the police question is adamant that NIkki isn't missing and is just off living her own life now, making it abundantly clear that Cecilia is freaking out for no good reason. The cops leave as Cecilia shouts at them, driving off and quietly joking in their cruiser about "Karens."

Sadly, as many children like Nikki can tell you, Nikki isn't quite free of her controlling mother just yet. Insane parents don't act logically, and in their enraged state, they won't stop at anything to once again have the child that has scorned them underneath their wing once more. That is where our story starts... a shrinking story...