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have we had this conversation? I’m sick and tired of her excusing her own irrational behavior. She just doesn’t get it. Just because I’m an adult now means I don't need my mom?
I bite into my sub aggressively as she looks on appalled. I can feel the animosity building between us, but I really couldn’t care less, she needs to hear it.
"I don’t like your tone Olivia, since you’ve been knocking around with that boy you’ve become a different person, not me. That was the problem in the first place and I know your hurting right now I really do, but I think...” She pauses on a breath. “It was for the best you finished. And as for running around with Mercy, we went to New York to sort the mess you left us with. Just because you decide to ruin your life for some stupid crush, you expect our lives to be put on hold too? The way you have been speaking to me and your dad, the way you’ve been acting, it's not on, and you wonder why I’ve been distant?"
I can feel my face heated up the more I stare at her, but I’m trying to keep my infuriating thoughts that are tallying up towards her toned down.
"Because you both think you know what’s best for me mom, both of you, and you don't. I’m not a child anymore you can’t protect me forever. You can't run my life for me like you always have and keep things from me just because you think its best. You didn't want me to go to New York because you wanted me here, where you could control what I did. The same way you didn’t want me going to college and only let me after I promised I’d start working for Mauricio when my studies were over with. Then all of a sudden I meet Calvin, he helps me find my own voice for the first time in my life, and then out of the blue, you buy me somewhere to live in New York? Acting like it was your idea all alone. Do you think I’m stupid?"
She shakes her head again like I’m being absurd, laughing her false over the top laugh at me.
"No one is controlling you Olivia, or keeping anything from you for that matter. Calvin was a bad influence on you from day one and nothing else. We thought you wanted to go to New York with Tyler, we actually come around to the idea, and then you didn’t want to go. How is that our fault?"
My mom stabs in fork aggressively into her salad trying to end the conversation but I’m not finished. I lean over the table a little more so she can hear me clearly.
"It wasn’t because I didn’t want to go and you know it. The reason I said no was because I would have be going on your terms, not mine. So there for, you would have still been controlling my life. Don't think I haven’t noticed the way you've been acting mom, this isn't just because I got with Calvin at all. How was my relationship so effective to yours and Mauricio’s? It had nothing to do with you but you won’t tell me what it is."
My mom grits her perfect teeth. "It did because we do know what's best for you and he wasn’t what was best. Now you work for Mercy we can keep an eye on you, it's not controlling, it's called caring. I will not have you saying we control your life. The very idea is absurd and darn right ludicrous."
I throw myself back in my seat feeling exhausted, shaking my head in amazement.
"Ludicrous? No it's the darn right truth. I bet you love that I work for Mauricio now, after all, that was your plan for me at the start. You both took great advantage of my state of mind, getting me to work there. Well now you have your wish, don’t you?"
"So why are you working there if you hate it?" She snaps.
"I have no choice." I snarl through clenched teeth, pushing my plate aside to my mom’s irritation. She looks from the plate back to my face and sighs.
"Olivia, I really don't understand you. You have been put in MF tailors as head and really, you have no clue how to run things, you’re just a talented artist. Your father has done all this for you, pulled so many strings, so don't you forget it. You have everything
I bite into my sub aggressively as she looks on appalled. I can feel the animosity building between us, but I really couldn’t care less, she needs to hear it.
"I don’t like your tone Olivia, since you’ve been knocking around with that boy you’ve become a different person, not me. That was the problem in the first place and I know your hurting right now I really do, but I think...” She pauses on a breath. “It was for the best you finished. And as for running around with Mercy, we went to New York to sort the mess you left us with. Just because you decide to ruin your life for some stupid crush, you expect our lives to be put on hold too? The way you have been speaking to me and your dad, the way you’ve been acting, it's not on, and you wonder why I’ve been distant?"
I can feel my face heated up the more I stare at her, but I’m trying to keep my infuriating thoughts that are tallying up towards her toned down.
"Because you both think you know what’s best for me mom, both of you, and you don't. I’m not a child anymore you can’t protect me forever. You can't run my life for me like you always have and keep things from me just because you think its best. You didn't want me to go to New York because you wanted me here, where you could control what I did. The same way you didn’t want me going to college and only let me after I promised I’d start working for Mauricio when my studies were over with. Then all of a sudden I meet Calvin, he helps me find my own voice for the first time in my life, and then out of the blue, you buy me somewhere to live in New York? Acting like it was your idea all alone. Do you think I’m stupid?"
She shakes her head again like I’m being absurd, laughing her false over the top laugh at me.
"No one is controlling you Olivia, or keeping anything from you for that matter. Calvin was a bad influence on you from day one and nothing else. We thought you wanted to go to New York with Tyler, we actually come around to the idea, and then you didn’t want to go. How is that our fault?"
My mom stabs in fork aggressively into her salad trying to end the conversation but I’m not finished. I lean over the table a little more so she can hear me clearly.
"It wasn’t because I didn’t want to go and you know it. The reason I said no was because I would have be going on your terms, not mine. So there for, you would have still been controlling my life. Don't think I haven’t noticed the way you've been acting mom, this isn't just because I got with Calvin at all. How was my relationship so effective to yours and Mauricio’s? It had nothing to do with you but you won’t tell me what it is."
My mom grits her perfect teeth. "It did because we do know what's best for you and he wasn’t what was best. Now you work for Mercy we can keep an eye on you, it's not controlling, it's called caring. I will not have you saying we control your life. The very idea is absurd and darn right ludicrous."
I throw myself back in my seat feeling exhausted, shaking my head in amazement.
"Ludicrous? No it's the darn right truth. I bet you love that I work for Mauricio now, after all, that was your plan for me at the start. You both took great advantage of my state of mind, getting me to work there. Well now you have your wish, don’t you?"
"So why are you working there if you hate it?" She snaps.
"I have no choice." I snarl through clenched teeth, pushing my plate aside to my mom’s irritation. She looks from the plate back to my face and sighs.
"Olivia, I really don't understand you. You have been put in MF tailors as head and really, you have no clue how to run things, you’re just a talented artist. Your father has done all this for you, pulled so many strings, so don't you forget it. You have everything
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