Chapter 7 Please Come Home\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 7 Please Come Home\u00a0<\/p>\n
I looked down at the frayed hem of my sweatshirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So you all noticed exactly how far I had to stretch every dollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
96\u00a0<\/p>\n
+5 Free Coins\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDad\u2019s Audi payments, your condo, the mortgage, and that six thousand dollars a month I send home like clockwork-where exactly do you think I\u2019d get extra money from?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mom patted my hand. \u201cAva, sweetie, you can\u2019t look at it that would fall apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Without you, way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
this family\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking of which, didn\u2019t you just get promoted? From now on, you can just send eight thousand dollars a month for household expenses.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dad chimed in. \u201cYeah, we won\u2019t put too much pressure on you. After three months, you can bump it up to ten thousand dollars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mom suddenly perked up like she\u2019d just remembered something important. She pressed a bag of cookies into my hands. \u201cOh, we brought these especially for you!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I heard that buyer transferred you 500 thousand dollars. That\u2019s perfect timing because we want to upgrade to a bigger house. It\u2019ll be so much more comfortable for the three of us\u2026 I mean four of us. All four of us living together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
So that was what this was really about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They\u2019d heard about my promotion and the money from selling the condo, and all this sweet talk was just laying the groundwork to keep using me as their personal ATM.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I coldly shut them down. \u201cAsk Stella to send you money. She\u2019s your peace of mind and your security, remember?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Right on cue, Stella finally showed up. \u201cAva, what kind of place are you renting? There\u2019s not even an elevator! I\u2019m exhausted!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It had only been two weeks since I\u2019d last seen her, but she looked completely different from head to toe. Fresh curls styled in this year\u2019s trendiest look. A new wool coat that looked expensive. A designer bag that probably retailed for 48 thousand dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I glanced down at the bag of cookies Mom had just given me. In big letters across the packaging, it said, \u201cCOMPLIMENTARY.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second Mom saw Stella, she turned to me. \u201cGet your sister some water. Look how tired\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
10:06 Tue, Jan 27\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 7 Please Come Home\u00a0<\/p>\n
:\u00a0<\/p>\n
96\u00a0<\/p>\n
+5 Free Coins\u00a0<\/p>\n
she is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t move. \u201cAre her hands broken?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAva!\u201d Mom caught herself quickly, remembering she needed something from me. \u201cAva, she\u2019s your sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way you\u2019re acting, I\u2019d think she was my boss or something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stella shot me an annoyed look. \u201cYou\u2019re seriously mad at me? You sold my condo without even telling me, and I\u2019m not throwing a fit about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI came all this way to see you. Just give us the money already.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dad, the eternal peacemaker, stepped in again. \u201cCome on, Ava. Stella\u2019s never had to deal with this kind of treatment before. She made the effort to come see you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen she can leave!\u201d I threw the bag of cookies at them and started pushing all three of them toward the door. \u201cGet out! I\u2019m not giving you a single cent!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I cut them off completely after that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I looked into it first, though. The minimum support requirement in my state was about six hundred dollars a month, or the equivalent in essential supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last month, I sent home six hundred dollars\u2019 worth of toilet paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This month, I sent six hundred dollars\u2019 worth of flour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I heard through some relatives that Mom and Dad were planning to sue me for elder neglect, but after everything that happened, no lawyer would touch their case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The thing was, their retirement income was more than enough to cover their living\u00a0<\/p>\n
expenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But they were still fixated on getting money out of me, and they\u2019d been going around telling relatives that I was some kind of ungrateful daughter who schemed against her own parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The people who accused you of things were always the ones who knew exactly what they did to you. And the ones who called you selfish were usually just mad they couldn\u2019t take advantage of you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I tried to ignore all of it, but I\u2019d clearly underestimated how obsessed they were with getting their hands on my money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
10:06 Tue, Jan 27\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 7 Please Come Home\u00a0<\/p>\n
La\u00a0<\/p>\n
96\u00a0<\/p>\n
+5 Free Coins\u00a0<\/p>\n
One day at work, my assistant knocked on my desk with an uncomfortable look on her face. \u201cMs. Henderson, you should probably check what\u2019s trending right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have short memories. They\u2019ve already forgotten about the court case, and now your sister\u2019s gone viral.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t help but laugh. Did this family know how to do anything besides manipulate public opinion?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I clicked on the link. The trending topic read, \u201cMy Dear Sister, Please Come Home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
10:06 Tue, Jan 27\u00a0<\/p>\n
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