You said something that brought tears to my eyes. You said you didn't want to disappoint your parents. While as a parent I can appreciate that you want to please yours, but is cutting class and not acheiving what you want to do, really? If not, than you are disappointing yourself, and that's important. Maybe this isn't coming across right, and it's great that you want to try hard for your parents, but you are a person too (really, teenagers are people, with real feelings and ideas! ). Parents can get quite emotional because we have such high hopes for our kids for a number of reasons--to be better than we were, to know the joy of a happy life, etc. The only time it's too late to try again, to start over, to keep moving forward, is when we are no longer here. Until that time, you can always, in some way, go forward and make positive changes. Why are you cutting classes, what's driving you to do things like that that you know aren't right? Those should be examined to find out why, that might help. Hold on, you'll get through the rough times.