Should I tell someone?

you could do both, depending on your best friend. It’s good to tell someone and have someone to talk to, but if your best friend is the “do-good” type she will try to convince you to go to social services or tell the cops or something. In a situation like this, I think it would hurt a lot of people by telling someone and just ripping yourself out of your life. If you have lived this way for a while, it will give you a sense of stability because it is what you are used to. When faced with sudden change, some people don’t expect it. This is why I think you should wait it out. Do the best you can in school and aim to get a scholarship, unless your grades are horrible, then you just have to work even HARDER. Fortunately 9th grade, now, is when it really counts so you have the chance to do good. We cannot choose our family and where we grow up, but we can choose how to react and where to go with our future. Why let your past drag you down and why carry it with you everywhere? You can do anything. You just need the ambition, the real life WANT and NEED to do something successful, the dream to do something good and amazing and the dream to go places and really, truly, purely, LIVE LIFE the way you want to, not the way your parents set you up to.

You need to tell someone NOW this is very important When you go to school ask you teacher to talk to the counsler tell him or her it IS urgent tell your counsler everything you just told us even about your cat tell her you have a dad and if your mom finds out you are scared the she will kill your cat PLEASE dont waste any time BE BRAVE PLEASE talk to your counsler at your school

You need to talk to someone who can do something about it. Like an adult. Like a teacher, or a counselor at school? And if things are that bad, you can call CPS and send in an anonymous report of abuse (I assume she is abusing you in some way, emotional or verbal abuse both count?)