Clearly. Clearly there was not a single chance I would be given to show that I am a good person. Clearly they were going to pass judgement on me long before they knew me. Clearly they were going to hate me from the moment I arrived.
I didn't stand a chance.
I moved from Washington to South Dakota to be with my fiance (Neo) while she was completing graduate school to be a science teacher. Everything is different here, the weather, the sky, the cities and the people. I have no friends out here. I have no family out here. My intention was to finish high school (senior year, online) and start getting used to life as an adult.
They never gave me a chance.
Her sister moved back into the apartment with us three days ago, as they go to the same college. We held approximately 2.5 conversations within the 10 or so hours we were actually in each other's presence. She was clearly uncomfortable around me and that made me uncomfortable with her.
She went home after just a day here, complained to their parents about being 'excluded' and having to clean everything (despite the fact that we never asked her to clean anything, and thanked her profusely when she did, and in several cases just could not beat her to what needed to be cleaned as she was on it like a hawk). Neo got a phone call about how we should be BEST FRIENDS. About how I wasn't TRYing, how it was all our fault for not immediately including her in every little thing we did when she clearly did not want to be within three feet of me. Like I carried the plague. Or leprosy.
So the sister spends a night away and comes back the next day for class. And we get a call from dear old mom about someone using the credit card (that everyone has a copy of/access to) to get a subscription to a porn site. So, of course, it MUST have been us. Being that we are lesbians and therefore depraved and -porn-watchers-. But nothing can be proven, so all remains quiet.
We go out to see The Expendables and hit up a Perkins for some real food afterwards, around 1am. Text her sister to see if she wants anything, trying to include her when she's not there. Sister turns around and texts mommy and daddy and says 'They're out having dinner at 1 in the morning!!' So mommy and daddy turn around and ... shut down the credit card.
Yes sirs and madams, because we ate out late at night they cut us off. This was the card that they had given to us to buy gas and groceries because we were not, to quote her mother, 'having steak every night for dinner.' And they cut us off for eating food at the wrong time.
BUT THAT IS NOT ALL FOLKS.
I awoke this morning to Neo's older sister (the younger being the one living with us, sort of) on the apartment desktop. She said that she had been sent by the parentfolks to hunt the desktop for anything... illicit. Now a little history, for clarity. This sister, the older one, is the failure. The repeat F student, the near-compulsive liar and the family trouble-maker. So she says she's here to look for 'bad things' and then the sisters leave.
And we get a text. Saying she found animal porn on the computer. Which is a lie.
After several hours of freaking out over them listening to the liar and feeling sick from tension... a phone call. From mommy dearest. That the only things they were angry about was my using a dinner plate for my paints and... us hugging and kissing in front of the younger (but still a year older than me) sister.
Yes, they finally said it. They hate me, and harass Neo, because we are female. I didn't have a chance. We're moving back to Washington.
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