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Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 11 What I Took Back
I listened quietly without interrupting."Ms. Lind…" Marcus sounded almost pleading. "We know you may not feel very good about Crescent Bay right now, but the community really needs you. You still have the access-control equipment, so could you—""Sure. However, you'll have to pay me back exactly what I spent on it," I replied evenly.There was a long silence on the other end of the line."Ms. Lind, we understand where you're coming from. Regardless, the community really can't afford to pay any more right now. And all the homeowners want the access-control system reinstalled. "We're willing to apologize to you and your parents. We were too inconsiderate back then. We acted too carelessly."An apology?Where were they when my parents stood shivering in the wind, treated like suspicious criminals and reported to the police?Where were they when my mother was stopped, had her bag searched, and was grabbed hard enough to leave a mark on her wrist?"Marcus, the property manager re
Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 10 After the Gates Came Down
I enjoyed a kind of peace in my new home that I had never known before. Even better, it lasted for several days, too.I woke to the morning sunlight, listening to my mother hum old songs in the kitchen while my father watered the pothos on the balcony.In the afternoons, I would make myself a cup of coffee and sit by the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching the children play in the garden below. Every now and then, I would be reminded of the trees and people at Crescent Bay.As time passed, those memories began to blur, as if it had all been nothing more than a distant nightmare.I deliberately avoided anything related to Crescent Bay, hoping to let that unpleasant chapter of my life settle into the past for good.Alas, life had a way of dragging buried memories back into the light when I least expected it.A week later, I was coming home from the grocery store with bags of meat and vegetables in both hands when I ran into Beatrice from upstairs at the elevator that evening.She w
Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 9 What Was Left Behind
Someone took a screenshot of those messages and sent it to another group. It was forwarded a few times before it finally got to me.I opened it and looked at it for three seconds before setting my phone back down on the table.My mother was trimming green beans beside me. "Who was that?""An ad.""Oh."She snapped the green beans into one-inch pieces and dropped them into the basket.Sunlight fell across the back of her hand. The purple bruising had faded, leaving only a faint yellowish-green mark.I watched her quietly.She didn't look up. She trimmed the green beans one by one, each piece the same length.Another week passed.A notice appeared at Crescent Bay's East Gate. "Access control system temporarily suspended. Restoration date to be announced."It didn't say why the system had been suspended. It didn't say when it would be restored, either.Half the notice was torn away on the sixth day, the remaining half desperately sticking to the wall and fighting against the w
Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 8 The Fallout
I paused. "Do you think I'm running a charity?"He hung up on me after that.My father was watering the pothos on the balcony that evening.I approached him, watching drops of water gather on the leaves before rolling into the soil. "Dad?""Hmm?" he grunted."The neighborhood here is nice. Why don't you stay here a little longer?"He didn't turn around as he replied gruffly, "Sure."He tilted the watering can, letting a thin stream run into the pot. "This morning, your mother said that the grocery store here is closer than the one back there.""Yeah.""And the security guard at the entrance even showed us the way."He set down the watering can. The sky had turned orange-red with layers of clouds stretching across it like folded silk.As I looked at the horizon, all I could make out through the dusk at Crescent Bay were the antennas on the rooftops.I didn't bring up that particular community again.A week later, word reached me about what was brewing in the homeowners' gro
Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 7 A New Home
I didn't bother answering.The meatloaf was soon ready.My mother brought it to the table, steam rising from the dish. "Eat, and we'll talk after."She handed me a fork.I took a bite. It was the special meatloaf she used to make only for the holidays when I was a kid.My father barely had anything. He only ate a few bites before setting his fork aside.He said quietly, "Sylvia, maybe your mother and I should go back home for now."I set my fork down. "Why?""There's too much going on here. We'll come back after things blow over.""You don't have to," I insisted.He fell silent for a moment before saying, "You're on your own out here. It's not good to make enemies."I looked down at the meatloaf on my plate. "I didn't make any enemies. I just took down something I paid for myself."My father said nothing.My mother pushed the plate of meatloaf toward me. "Have some more."I got a text at 9 p.m.It came from Building 18, Unit 1602, which was the complex next door.It was
Lock Out My Parents and Lose It All Chapter 6 A Line in the Sand
He didn't take it. The business card fell to the floor.I shut the door in their faces.My mother stood in the middle of the living room. She'd overheard everything.She said softly, "Sylvia, I'm sorry for causing you trouble."I walked over to her. "You didn't.""It was just some trouble at the gate. It wasn't worth—"I took her hand, silencing her. The red mark around her wrist had turned a shade of dark purple. "Mom, this isn't about getting through the gate."My mother nodded and said nothing else.I made breakfast for my parents bright and early the next morning.I fixed my mother a plate of scrambled eggs and toast and watched her finish it.She'd iced her wrist last night, so the swelling had gone down some. Unfortunately, the mark was still dark and raised.My father barely ate a thing. He just pushed his food around with his fork a few times, then set it down.There was a commotion outside.I stepped onto the balcony and looked down.A crowd had gathered around E
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