A horrible stepmother and a horrible me

It was an interesting story. Mistaking people is often awkward and embarrassing. You got the feeling that you were hearing this from an adolescent.

The writing really needs work, and that's what killed the piece. The same complications in flow kept coming back, so I'll show you some examples.
"her lips looked as though she sucked blood. It was that red."
(first of all, it would be "they", not "it"...)
The second sentence in there was a fragment. Instead of a period, you could use a comma or a semi colon.

" I walked back over to the table (where I left my bag),"
Don't use parenthesis in the story unless you need to. The statement in parenthesis could easily have been incorporated into the sentence, and flowed fine.

Those weren't the only problem parts, just an example of what should be fixed throughout the piece.
I felt the third paragraph really needed work. It was kind of all over the place, and hard to follow.

The piece really just.... didn't come together very well. It felt sloppy.

It's an interesting story, but it should be written. Maybe give it a few years, look back at the event, and write it with more reflection and writing flow.
It's good that you're writing, though. Keep working on it.

It seemed real. I can believe you when you say the stepmother thought you were her child, because you thoroughly described her and took a good long look at her to see what was really inside. If you had not been so thorough, I would have voted negative on this article just because of the terrible tagline. (No offense) But I was pleasantly surprised by this sincere view on a touchy situation, and I thank you for it.

There were a few punctuation errors, and I didn't really like the one paragraph form you put the article in. Nothing else to report, though.

Good job. Hope she doesn't make the same mistake again. :)

A very short story with a character without a name was written very well. In such a short piece, I felt there was a decent amount of character development.

Cant really think of any...

In the end, the story really made you think. In my honest opinion, those are the best kind.