My stepsister slapped me for cutting my own birthday cake, and my dad said I was being disrespectful. Now, I’m planning how to leave them for good—quietly. My name is Alex Carter. I turned seventeen last week. It was supposed to be a quiet birthday—just me, my dad, my stepmother Linda, and her daughter Madison. But it turned into something else entirely. We were in the dining room of our house in suburban Ohio. The cake was on the table—chocolate, my favorite. I had just finished blowing out the

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