I love my dad

“In my opinion we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a
cure for jerks”
I yelled at my dad. I mean all I wanted to do was go out with this really cute guy I had met on the internet. He seemed really romantic and like he cared a lot about me. He had asked me to go out to dinner with him and then drive out to his lake house to enjoy the fireplace. I was going to fix some of my famous s’mores. Not a big deal, it wasn’t like I was going to go and have sex with him. At my age and his, it was kind of illegal.
“Anna, you’re not going! You don’t know who he is or what in the world he might do to you, i'm just doing the precautious thing and not allowing my daughter to go off with a complete stranger” He said angrily
“But dad! Don’t you think I’m able to make my own decisions and not allow myself to be put into a dangerous situation, I’m sixteen dad not four”
“I said no and no is final Anna, don’t ask again”
So that was it my date was cancelled and my dad was even more pissed off than ever. My mom was always gone to work so I was pretty much under my dad’s control. I went to my room and logged online to go explain to my adorable date that I was unable to attend our wonderful planned evening. Thank God he was online.

Anna: Hey babe
Tom: Hey sweetie, so hows your day going?
Anna: umm we have a problem; my dad isn’t allowing me to do tonight….
Tom: WTF, I had planned this out and everything. I went and bought a couple things tonight and then you’re going to blow me off like this. Wow, that’s a girl for you, fine then ill just go and find me someone better. Bye.
Anna: Tom?…
“Tom” is offline.

So much for that, now he will never speak to me again, all because of my dad. God. I just went to bed. The next morning I woke up and dad was watching the news while eating breakfast and called me over there to come see a report. It was talking about the dangers of teen girls going out with older males. The risk of date rape, kidnapping or even murder. It began to talk about a girl who had been raped and murdered last night by a long known sex offender. Before it could even register in my mind, Tom’s picture came up. He had done it, taken another girl out, raped her and killed her. Thank God for my dad. I love him.