INICIAR SESIÓNWhen I brought my girlfriend, Ivy Rossum, home to meet my family, my cousin, Kevin Lonsdale, snuck into her room, took off his clothes, and got into her bed. When we found him, he clutched the sheets and said in a shaking voice, “Paul, I didn’t do this on purpose. I thought I was going to my room.” It was the same excuse he had used before. Eight years ago, when I brought my first girlfriend home, he had done the exact same thing and used the same excuse. I finally called him out on it. “Everyone occasionally ends up at the wrong door, but how did you get in with the wrong keycard?” Kevin’s face went white, his tears suddenly halting. Dad defended him and scolded me. “Kevin has always been absent-minded, you know this! Look at him now. He’s had a shock. How could you humiliate him when he’s already in such a state?” I felt suffocated. I held strong and did my best not to tremble. I looked at the woman I had loved and kept secret from my family for six years and asked, “Ivy, how would you like to deal with this?”
Ver más“Don’t you want to know how long he’s been sentenced to?”“It’s enough that you know.” I looked up. “He won’t bother me again. That’s enough.”She nodded and did not bring Kevin up again.Three days later, Dad sent me a package. Inside was an old silver key. I used to wear it as a pendant when I was younger. There was also a note by Dad with it.[I’ve always kept this, Paul. I used to think Kevin was a poor boy, so I gave him everything that should have been yours. However, I did not give him this.]I flipped the silver key over in my hand, looking at it closely. It was very small, and a corner had been rubbed so much it shone.I tried it on, fitting it securely. When Ivy came over and saw it, she touched the key. “Did your dad send this?”“Yes.”“What are you thinking?”I gave it some thought before saying, “He did a lot of things wrong, but he still kept this key all this time.”“So, what will you do?”“I’ll keep it. The rest can come later.”Ivy smiled. “Alright,
“Paul, it was Grandma who suggested you should go to the same college as me. Uncle Grant was the one who said you should let me date your first girlfriend. I learned how to get the hotel keycard online. “I never came up with those ideas…”I cut him off. “You’re still trying to deny it.”Kevin was taken aback. “Just because Grandma suggested it, you’ll do it? Just because Dad said something, you’ll go along? You walked into that hotel room and undid your buttons yourself. You said all those things yourself.“Kevin, you did all those things. It doesn’t matter who taught you to do them.”Kevin opened his mouth. Tears still ran down his face, but he said nothing. “You always think I would let it go as long as you cry. You think I would be afraid of Dad scolding me, of our relatives calling me heartless, of everyone thinking I’m the bad guy.” I looked into his eyes. “Well, I’m not afraid anymore.”Kevin suddenly got agitated. He stood up and slammed himself against the glass pa
“I-I only wanted Kevin to have someone to take care of him. You had good grades, and you would have been able to—”“I had a lot of trouble applying to college again, did you know that?”Grandma would not budge. “How can you speak to me this way? I was only thinking of our family!”I chuckled. I did not feel sad about the whole situation at all; I only found it absurd. “Our family?” I looked at her. “You never treated me as a member of your family. Kevin is your grandson, but aren’t I your grandson too?”Grandma sputtered. She wanted to scold me some more, but she could not find any words. “Your father doesn’t blame me, so what makes you think you can?”“Whether he blames you is a separate thing from me asking you about it.”I stood up. She yelled after me, “Don’t you dare come back after this, Paul!”I did not look back. At the end of the street, I found Ivy’s car waiting there. She got out of the driver’s seat without saying anything and pulled me into her warm embrac
The next morning, I got some screenshots of Kevin’s chat history from the police. Kevin’s phone was in police custody, and their technicians had restored some deleted messages. One of them was from eight years ago. [Uncle Grant wants Paul to apply to an Ivy League college. What a joke. I had Grandma talk to him to make Paul go to the same community college as me. Why should Paul get everything? I want him to lose everything.]Another text read: Grandma loves me the most. She got Uncle Grant to steal Paul’s college application. Paul still doesn’t know. What an idiot.I stared at the screen for a long time and felt the urge to laugh. Then, I really laughed. So, it had not been Dad’s intention to steal my college application. Grandma and Kevin both had a hand in it. Dad was only the one who swung the gavel. Once I stopped laughing, I sent the screenshots to Dad without any other comments. Ten minutes later, he called. “Paul…” Dad’s voice trembled violently. “How did you


















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