Discovery.

Some light was shed onto me last weekend, compliments of my father.
This was a bright, blinding light, I would say.



He let me know, while standing up against the counter in the kitchen, eating chicken with his hands.
He killed the chicken that morning, for your information.

I was sitting at the table with Eduardo, my boyfriend, a usual sight. We all sit around the table
and watch my dad smoke cigarettes and talk. He doesn't just smoke cigarettes, another FYI.
He grows lots of things on his farm.

So were sitting and he asks me; "Is Holly on the war path?"
Holly is my mom. And I answered that, yes she is. Considering she closed my bank
account and took all my savings last week. Hasn't spoken to me since.

I made my father aware of the now expired bank account. He was not surprised, even a little
proud I might say. "That's 'cause I beat her in court last week."

This was news. My mother has been in court trying to send my father to jail for
numerous things. And I knew that my father (with the help of his girlfriend who happens to work in a lay firm) had been trying to prove that the child support he was due to pay was unjust. Given that, my mom has been married to Bruce for over a decade, I do not see him enough hours a year to qualify as his daughter (or something like that) and simply; my mom is a money hungry pig.

So, my mom took my bank account money because she would no longer be receiving money from my dad, and she would now have to get a job. Like a normal person. She used my sister hitting me as some kind of excuse. I'm hurt that money to my mom is worth more than my success.

I tell my dad I am sad about not having any money now, and describe my growing anxiety about my future.

This is the punchline:

To witch my dad replies: "Oh yeah, you know if you get a bachelors degree before you turn twenty seven, you get like $300,000 right?"

I stare at him.
No, obviously I was not aware I was entitled to three hundred thousand dollars, dad.

He goes on: "Yeah Katherine (My grandmother on my mothers side) left it for you in her will."

Really? My whole life no one told me this?

He went on to announce that, all I had to do was get a four year degree in college before I turn twenty seven, and I'm set. I also acquire another huge chunk of money when I turn thirty five, for the hell of it.



So, the reason my mom hasn't been supportive of my future is because, if I don't succeed in getting a bachelors degree by the time I'm 27, she gets the $300,000 dollars.

So I'm sad that my mother doesn't want me to be successful, but I'm happy that the chances
of me being happy in the future are a whole lot greater than I expected.