“Hello, Mother.
What do you mean? I just got off a plane. I wore comfortable clothes,” Diane said, confused.
“Well, that won’t do.
You can’t meet my husband looking like that. I’ll give you something when we get to my house,” Erika said.
Inside the car, her mother talked about her life and didn’t ask Diane anything unless it was to critique something about her. “You’re fatter than I expected, but that’s fine.
We’ll get you on a diet and problem solved,” her mother said, more to herself than to Diane.
She was forced to wear a fancy dress to have dinner with her stepfather, who was apparently an important businessman in this town and extremely rich. But Diane hated every moment and wished she hadn’t come at all.
At dinner, her stepfather barely paid her any attention beyond the initial greeting and asking to pass the salt. She was supposedly here to meet him, but this was beyond confusing.
The worst part was that her mother acted as the most caring person in the world in front of him.
“Honey. So, you’ll be staying here from now on, and you’ll have the best time. This city is so much better than our town back home,” Erika said after an hour of this awkward dinner.
“What?
I thought this was just a visit, and then we would decide on college,” Diane asked, shocked.
“That makes no sense. You’re staying here. Your stepfather always wanted to have kids, and since I’m too old now, you’ll have to do,” her mother said nonchalantly.
That was the real reason her mother had invited her here.
But Diane couldn’t take it anymore. “Hey, Mom. Can you give me some money for a taxi?
I want to explore downtown,” Diane asked. Her mother hesitated, but she was too afraid of looking bad in front of her husband to say no.
The truth is that Diane didn’t want to go downtown at all. She took a cab straight to the airport and exchanged her return ticket for the most immediate flight home.
After several hours, she arrived back at Uncle Roger and Aunt Karina’s house.
“What are you doing here, sweetheart?” her aunt asked. Her uncle was equally surprised to see her back.
“I couldn’t stay there anymore. You guys are my parents.
She only wanted to show me off to her husband because she can’t have more kids,” Diane said.
“Oh, honey. You know you always have a home with us,” Uncle Roger said and hugged her. And Diane forgot about Erika forever because she had a beautiful set of parents already.
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