Mom Thinks 10K Is Too Little
I've been working for five years now. This is the first time my mom takes the initiative to call me to go home for the holidays.
So I travel home with heaps of luggage. Still, I manage to free one hand to produce an envelope filled with cash and give it to my mom.
A grin blooms on her face instantly. But when she realizes that there's only ten thousand dollars in the envelope, her grin starts to falter.
"Oh, it only makes sense that you're the most manipulative out of the bunch after all these years."
I pause momentarily as I'm about to go through the front door.
"You've been working for quite a few years now, and yet you only bring home ten thousand bucks. Meanwhile, Sabrina gave us 100 thousand dollars in her first year of working a nice job. Having a bachelor's degree definitely pays off a lot!"
Upon noticing how stunned I look, my mom yanks the gifts over right away.
"Don't go around looking as though we owe you a life debt, Regina! See, Sabrina has better grades than you, and she doesn't have the intention of hiding anything from us. The gifts she always brings us are top-end supplements, so you should stop bringing us cheap stuff like this."
I can only grip the hems of my shirt tightly.
But the thing is, I'm the one with better scores back then…