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I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 10
Mom and Dad stayed near my university for seven days.They came every day.They didn’t knock on my dorm room door.They didn’t contact my professors.They didn’t ask their assistant to reach out to me again.They simply sat on a bench across from the campus entrance.Sometimes, when I passed by, I would see Mom holding a thermos of food and Dad staring at a book he clearly wasn’t reading.On the seventh night, they left.After they went home, they canceled every weekend meeting at the company.But now that their weekends were free, there was no daughter waiting at home for them anymore.Mom sent me only one email.'We’re home. We won’t bother you anymore.'There was an audio file attached.I stared at the filename for a long time.My finger hovered over the mouse.I couldn’t bring myself to click it.Not until late that night, after my roommate had fallen asleep.I put on my headphones.For a long time, there was nothing but static.Then Grandma’s voice finally came
I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 9
Three months later, Dad finally spotted my name in an article about an academic competition.I was standing in the back row of the photo.My hair was shorter.I was holding a certificate.The article listed the name of my university.The next morning, Mom and Dad booked the earliest flight they could.After more than ten hours in the air and two more transfers, they finally found my school.But when Mom stood outside my dorm, she suddenly lost the nerve to go inside.She looked at Dad.“What time is it?”Dad froze.Mom glanced down at her bare wrist.“Back then, would she have checked how many minutes she had left first?”No one answered.They waited outside until it was dark.When I came back from the library, I saw them immediately.I stopped in my tracks.Mom’s eyes turned red.“Sweetheart.”My fingers tightened around the strap of my backpack.It had been a long time since anyone had called me that.The last time had been Grandma’s broken voice on the damaged t
I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 8
The next morning, Mom went to Grandma’s old house.Her hand shook so badly that it took her three tries to get the key into the lock.The moment the door opened, dust drifted into the air.The pencil marks Grandma had made to track my height were still on the living room wall.Age seven: 4'0".Age nine: 4'5".Age eleven: 4'11".Beside every mark was a note in Grandma’s handwriting.'Lena grew again today.'Mom reached out and ran her fingers over the wall.Dust coated her fingertips.Then she noticed another line of writing underneath.Smaller than the rest.'Mom picked me up today. Used 18 minutes. Happy.'Mom’s hand froze.There were fewer notes after that.'Dad came to my awards ceremony. 27 minutes.''Mom took me to the doctor. 45 minutes.'And then, eventually,there were only height marks.No Dad.No Mom.In the bedroom, Mom found one of Grandma’s old notebooks inside a drawer.She opened to the first page.'She keeps asking me what time her mom and dad wi
I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 7
On the third day, my advisor sent Dad a post from the school forum.'Ungrateful Student Loses College Recommendation. Serves Her Right.'There were hundreds of comments underneath.Some called me heartless.Others said I was only pretending to be a victim.Someone even posted screenshots of the payments I had made to hire people for parent-teacher conferences.'She has money to hire strangers to play her parents, but no heart for her real ones.'Dad read every single comment.His finger stayed frozen over the screen for a long time.Then, for the first time, he issued a statement through the company’s official social media account.'It is true that our daughter hired people to attend parent-teacher conferences on our behalf.The reason was that we limited her to three hours of family time each month and deducted any overtime from her allowance.She did not deceive her school. We failed her as parents.'Less than ten minutes after the statement went up, Dad’s phone started
I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 6
When Dad’s assistant sent over twelve years of records, the file was more than a hundred pages long.Dad sat in his study and went through them page by page.Age seven.Family field day: 42 minutes.Age eight.Birthday dinner: 36 minutes.Age twelve.Appendicitis. 40 minutes over: following month’s allowance reduced to zero.Age fourteen.Grandma’s funeral: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 51 seconds.Age fifteen.Parent-teacher conference ran 23 minutes over: $230 deducted from allowance.There was a note underneath.'Miss Hayes ended the hug herself with nine seconds remaining. No overtime.'Mom’s breath caught.She remembered that night.I had still been crying when I suddenly pulled away from her arms.And she had actually smiled and praised me for being so mature.The entries grew shorter after that.At fifteen, I used an average of 47 minutes a month.At sixteen, 19 minutes.At seventeen, six.For the past three months, zero.Dad scrolled back up.“Are some of the rec
I Only Got 180 Minutes of My Parents’ Love a Month Chapter 5
By the time my flight landed, dawn was just breaking.The moment I turned on my phone, dozens of messages came flooding in.Dad wanted to know where I had gone.Mom wrote,“Enough of this. Come home. No one’s actually angry with you.”The last message had been sent at two in the morning.‘We’re getting rid of the three-hour rule.’I stared at those words for a long time.If I had seen them when I was twelve, I probably would have hugged my phone and cried from happiness.Now, I simply muted all their messages.A university staff member was waiting at arrivals with my name on a sign.She took one of my suitcases and looked at me.“This is all you brought?”“Yeah.”I didn’t tell her that I had sold everything else.The gifts my parents had given me had become my tuition, my plane ticket, and my housing for the first semester.My dorm room was small.Outside the window was a street I had never seen before.I placed Grandma’s photograph on my desk.Then I set the broken
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