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I couldn’t help but feel a bit shocked, but it
wasn’t my problem anymore.
I was getting ready for my overseas training
when I was approached by Mom and Dad, who
looked really old and tired.
They were crying and saying how much they
had messed up. They were saying they never
should have cut me off and wanted me to come
home.
When I refused, they knelt down begging me to
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pay for Jake’s medical bills. They had sold
everything, the car, the house, and everything in
between.
I felt cold. They didn’t care about me, they just
wanted money.
I grabbed the document, the one that cut me
off from them.
“Remember this? We are not family anymore, I
don’t have to care about what happens to you.”
Mom grabbed my leg and started crying.
“Riley, please don’t do this, he’s your brother,
save him, we need our family. We don’t want to
be the last of our name.”
I started laughing.
“You didn’t care about blood when you kicked
me out, what makes you think I would care
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about you now. And I am not your family
anymore, what do you care about my opinion!”
When they saw that I wasn’t helping, Mom said
she was going to take her own life, and it would
be my fault.
“I’m going to take my own life, and you are
going to feel guilty about the rest of your life!
I’ll tell everyone that you’re a murderer, it’s your
fault that your brother is in bed! I’ll take you to
court, you’re a horrible person!”
Dad looked at me with pure hate. “If you don’t
save your brother, I’ll go to your company and
tell them what you’re really like. That you’re a
cold, heartless snake. He might have messed
up, but he is still your brother! You deserve to
be in the dirt with him.”
“Like father, like son,” I thought.
I’d tried so hard to connect to them, to try and
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I had fring to haun a family.
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fix our relationship. I had tried to have a family,
but it was impossible. They didn’t have feelings,
they were just using me.
They thought they could threaten me. They
couldn’t touch me anymore.
“You made a scene when I started working
here, my boss knows who you are and what
you’re like. Do you think they’ll trust you or me?
And we aren’t related anymore!”
They went white, they couldn’t believe what I
was saying, they left quietly and defeated.
I was soon on the plane, going overseas.
The sun was bright and I was happy.
The past is the past, the future is bright. I know
I will be great, and I can’t wait to see what’s
next!
