New Jersey teen throws a house party while home alone. After the house got trashed, she says her parents kicked her out: ‘I can’t even look at you’

Emmy Zak (@emmyazak) from New Jersey was home alone during her senior year in high school. She thought she could get away with throwing a party at her parents’ house, but allegedly ended up being “reverse-grounded” instead.

Zak was 17, and her brother was a college student who, she claimed, played for the Villanova University hockey team. A tournament was happening, so her parents went to Villanova to watch him compete.

“This is where I find it to be my brother’s fault, because if his team had won, this never would have happened,” Zak told TikTok. She explained that if the team had won, her parents would have come home on Sunday. However, if her brother’s team had lost, her parents would have come home earlier on Saturday, a possibility she hadn’t considered. Because of that, Zak threw a party at her parents’ house on Friday.

Zak said that the party eventually spiraled out of control. It’s not as if she took a strange substance that led her to run all the way to a different city, unlike this Ontario woman who smoked at a party and had a near-death experience. With so much energy in the house, Zak alleged that a pizza even flew to the ceiling. Some of the attendees also allegedly started throwing things out of her family home.

“I’m not proud of how my friends handled this, but I was being stupid too,” she recalled. People also allegedly slept over and used all of the beds in the house. But after one chaotic night, Zak said she received a message from her mother. Her mother, whom she described as ‘Type A,’ or strict, allegedly told her that her brother’s team had lost. Because they lost, they will come home after lunch on Saturday.

Nearly losing everything after a chaotic house party

Zak said she understood that she didn’t have time to clean up and air out the house. She also added that she was so hungover from the event that all she could manage was to make people leave the house and make the beds. However, she couldn’t clean everything. Zak said the pizza on the ceiling left a stain that needed painting over. Then, she said she went to have a hangover breakfast with her friends, feeling anxiety-ridden over the mess at home.

“We go back, and they’re just waiting in the kitchen for me,” Zak said. She alleged that her parents found out about the house party before they even walked in because of the beer cans. But as they walked further into the house, Zak claimed her grandfather’s antique table was broken, her parents found out someone else had slept in their bed, and they also discovered the pizza stain on the ceiling. After seeing the state of their house, her mother allegedly told Zak to leave.

“You’re not staying here. I can’t even look at you,” her mother allegedly told her. Zak called the act ‘reverse-grounding,’ which meant that she was kicked out. She was told to go to school, but was allegedly no longer welcome at dinner or around the family home. Given her circumstances, Zak said she stayed at a friend’s, whose home had a basement room. Even though Zak was told to leave the house, she said her parents did not take her car.

She came back home after an incident

“There’s nothing worse than your parents being like, ‘We’re not mad at you, we’re disappointed in you.’ Like, ‘We’re so disappointed in you, we can’t even look at you,’” Zak explained. She pleaded with her mother to come home, but her mother allegedly refused. She also tried to text her father, wanting to come home. However, her father allegedly refused, telling Zak to give her mother more time to cool down. Zak said this was the first time her parents “grounded” her, describing herself as a ‘good’ child who was afraid to disappoint them.

During her soccer game, Zak said another player hit her on the head with their elbow. She said she passed out from the impact and received a concussion. Because of that, her mother allegedly took pity on her. On their way back from the hospital, Zak said her mother came home. Unlike Zak, however, this woman suffered lasting consequences after hitting her head during a middle-school prank.

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