mom wants to defend my sister for stealing from me and wants to send me to military school this happened when I was 14 it was roughly a year give or take before my parents divorced my younger sister was always spending her allowance like it was water especially on makeup Mall food video games and clothes from Hot Topic while I had an allowance too my dad had me earn it more by cleaning house and doing yard work because my sister never lifted a finger unless dad was there to supervise her and my mother never made her
do any chores either unless it was to clean her room to get some extra cash I mowed lawns picked up disc Ed cans around the neighborhoods to cash in for the 5-cent deposit and did some other odd jobs around the neighborhood at the time I was saving to buy a scooter to get around town on over the course of two years doing odd jobs and hoarding most of my allowance I managed to save about $2,000 but getting that money built up was not easy mainly because of my sister she knew all the little hiding places
I used to hide my stash of money and would steal from it here's a highlight that's paraphrased from what I remember me hey sis did you take my money again sis what and no she used to St when caught in a lie me you're a terrible liar there's $100 missing for my savings sis leave me alone I didn't do it starts fake crying and runs to Mom sis mommy bro is picking on me me she stole from my savings again mom start snapping her fingers at me shut up can't you see Mama's little girl is
upset she said she didn't do it so she didn't do it and that's all there is to it so if you don't let this go I'll ground you m I know she did it and if you don't get the money back I'll get Dad's help Mom now there's no need for that besides you don't have any proof she took your money me yes I do I keep a ledger for each and every dollar I add to it the total three days ago was Forex now there's only Z $100 is missing and you know she's stolen
from my savings several times already plus I know sis already spent all of her allowance this month yet you took her out shopping yesterday where'd she get that money from huh Mom mom thinks for a second then scowls you know what you are grounded go to your room or I'm going to get the belt I could have argued the issue further but if there's one thing I learned in that household it was when to stop talking and just call my father so without another word to either of them I walked to my room and slammed
the door then I pulled out my little brick Nokia cell phone that I had back then and dialed my dad at work he didn't pick up so I left a message explaining everything then he called me back about an hour later and said he'd sorted out not long after I heard the landline house phone ringing followed by my mom yelling at dad over the phone in the kitchen I didn't catch much trying to listen from my room other than Mom trying to justify her actions but that never worked when she was in the wrong so
she ended up yelling out something to the likes of fine if she really took the money then you can pay it back because she already spent it then my mother threw open my door to scream at me I can't believe you ratted me out you little ingrate after all I do for you you couldn't just let a little money slide me so you admit that my sister took it then Mom sneers you know what I don't care girls need more money than boys you should just be giving it to her anyway it wasn't even that
much me it wasn't just a little money and you know it she stole a $100 and even if it was only $1 I'd still want it back you wouldn't want someone stealing from your purse it's no different if sis steals from me she's guilty and you know it and I want that money returned one way or another I worked hard for it and she did nothing mom my baby doesn't have to do anything she is a princess and deserves to be treated like one me that isn't my problem she can go be a princess away
from me and away from my stuff Mom that's if you little [ __ ] I'm going to beat your ass me standing up and facing her eye to eye as I was already as tall as her at 14 and decently strong from all the outdoor work I was doing go ahead and try it I won't let you because I didn't do anything wrong my mother froze in place for a moment then let out a loud ra and swung her arm to try and knock something off my dresser but she swung too low and hit the
dresser itself which I imagine really hurt she grabbed her hand to try and hold in the pain and was giving me a furious look while nashing her teeth then she just turned around and walked out I heard her make a Ruckus yelling and smacking the wall as she went down the hall down the stairs into the kitchen to just do her usual when she didn't get her way which was to go to her wine fridge and proceed to get drunk my sister was watching me from her bedroom door and she looked at me horrified before
fleeing back inside her room and slamming the door mom was her Ace in the Hole for getting away with the stuff she did to me and that was quickly changing a few hours later my dad came home from work and marched my sister into my room to come and see me he' made her admit to stealing from me and then told me I was not grounded sis refused to even look at me the entire time she was being made to apolog ol and she did so in the most quiet and squeaky voice at first till
my dad repeatedly told her to speak up till she was practically yelling it then Dad gave me a $100 bill to make up for what my sister took and said she was grounded for a week and the stolen money would come out of her allowance to which she started balling and calling Dad awful before running off to her room my mom just sat at the back patio getting drunk with her favorite wine and ignoring all of us she never apologized to me and even at times acted like the whole situation never happened also my sister
still got her next allowance anyway only it was my mom who gave it to her instead of my my dad that time a few days later on my dad's day off from work we went to a local store and he bought me a combination safe to keep my money and other small valuables in we didn't tell either my mother or sister I had it it was set for a four-digit code if I remember the code I used back then was 4,962 I put all of my money into the safe and locked it then put it
in the back of my closet a few weeks went by and one day after I'd gotten back from mowing a few neighbor Lawns I found my room had been ransacked I called my mother to tell her what sis did to my room mom of course denied it mom my baby didn't do this me well then did you Mom no me well it could only have been one of you as this room was clean when I left and no one else was here Mom visibly annoyed at being caught by Logic fine but if she did do
it then so what you had it coming by not being nicer to her anyway then stormed off I called my dad again and left another message on his work answering machine about what happened then I went to my sister's room and told her I knew she was the one who tore up my room and before she could even try to answer me I stated she couldn't get to my money anymore because I'd locked it away in a a safe that made her throw an absolute tantrum and of course evil Mama Bear came running to her
rescue but I just repeated that sis couldn't get at my money anymore and went back to my room to clean it up while my sister kept screaming in her room for like the next 20 minutes nothing was really missing or broken just thrown and scattered around I picked everything up and put it back the way it was admittedly it was the smuggest I'd ever felt cleaning my room but the next day I found it tore up again and this time my window was broken as well sis had hurled the safe out the window because she
couldn't get it open I called my father right away and when both my parents got home from work my sister fully admitted to having done it like she was proud of herself my mother actually tried to side with her by saying I shouldn't have gotten the safe in the first place but my dad chewed her out and said he got it for me because he was sick and tired of my sister stealing from me every time she stole money from me and spent it my dad had to reimburse me since my mom never would we
had to have the whole window from my room replaced and my dad got me a lock for my door and even a combination key lock box that contained the key to my room next to the door my sister ended up grounded for a month for breaking my window and she spent that whole time time just sulking in her room whenever dad was home mom always let her go back to doing what she wanted like playing video games or watching TV and stuff till my dad got off work I didn't bother to say anything because I
knew if I did both my sister and my mom would have gone out of their way to make me more miserable after her month-long grounding was over my sister resorted to begging me for money every time she spent all of her allowance but I just called her out that she'd never pay it back because she never saves anything and just to be funny I drew up an IOU to see if she'd actually sign it in front of dad later she tore the paper in half and went crying to Mom again about how I was being
mean to her her and Mom would try to make me cough up the money for her but I just reminded her what Dad would do so if my sister wanted any more cash it wasn't going to come from me after this my mom actually tried to get me sent to military school but Dad didn't let her also for those wondering why my dad just didn't help me get a savings account back then I really don't know I guess saving it in cash was just how we did things update one the time I got my mother
to walk right into my door shortly after my dad gave me a safe for my money he also got me a deadbolt lock for my door with a wall mounted lock lock box that required a code to get the key because my sister threw my safe through my bedroom window we installed the lock and lock box together while my mom and sister weren't home when my sister first walked by my room after coming back I saw her look at the Lock and then go running to get Mom they both came storming up the stairs to
be greeted by my dad and I the following is paraphrased from what I remember Mom snaps her fingers a few times and points what the hell is that Dad a door lock mom I know what the [ __ ] it is why is it there dad because you never see fit to punish or stop our for stealing from kagle or ransacking his room so from now on the lock stays mom he's only 14 and this is my house he can't have a lock on the door dad know this is our house but last I checked
I paid most of the mortgage and the bills you hardly pay anything and I'm tired of you favoring daughter so much that kle keeps having to suffer for it mom well then I demand you tell me the code for the lockbox at least dad dead pan stare I'm not doing that because you've shown I can't trust you anymore mom then blew her top and stormed down the stairs my sister just stood there looking pouty and then slowly walked to her room things were good with a new lock and it became habitual for me to lock
it every time I left my bedroom I saw my sister and mother staring at me on numerous occasions when I input the code to get the key but I always made sure to use my hand or my body to block their line of site they really didn't like that but there wasn't anything they could do about it then one day late in the month my sister came begging me for $40 to buy a video game she really wanted me why do you keep coming to me to ask for money when you and I both know
you'll never pay it back sis I'll pay it back I swear me no you won't you spend everything you have in them some each month and you know you'd want to just spend all of your allowance rather than pay me back it's what you always do sis n no I don't me well then how about we test that I then went into my room and got a piece of paper and pen and then Han wrote an IOU contract that stated CIS would pay me back the $40 upon getting her monthly allowance and the IOU was
to be co-signed by dad as a witness always have a witness for contracts folks CIS read the paper then started sniffling she tore it in half and then ran crying to Mom yet again it was what she did every single time she didn't get her away sis Moi sobbing mom what is this my little princess what did kagle do now Mish she wanted to borrow money so I asked her to sign an IOU in front of dad then she freaked out mom and why would you do that she just wanted to borrow a little money
me would you sign the IOU as well to make sure she pays the money back Mom you little [ __ ] I don't have to sign anything now just loan her the money me not without a signed IO you Mom stands up with her arm out like she's ready to hit me then retracts it you're just like your father you have to have a paper trail for everything I hate it me starts walking up the stairs to my room at this point Mom I'd say it's a good thing I'm just like Dad because it's far
better than being just like you like sis is because you never do anything good mom what was that you little [ __ ] start storming up the stairs just as I got into my bedroom door and locked it now my mom had a habit of throwing open my bedroom door to yell at me back then she did one sweeping motion of opening the door while lunging her body forward and at this time I'd only had the lock on my door for a little while so she wasn't used to it yet I locked the dead bolt
and she tried to throw open my door and slammed right into it with a pretty loud thud and then I heard her fall onto the floor and start making noises of crying in pain she'd slammed her body and face against the door pretty hard it was an old-fashioned style door made of solid wood and it gave her a fat lip and a bump on the forehead I opened the door and she was sprawled out and pounding her fists on the floor mom you did this to me you little [ __ ] me you did it
to yourself mom you are grounded get out of my sight after that I called Dad and he just groaned over the phone about the whole situation he said I wasn't grounded but I was still in big trouble for goating her and to just let him deal with her when he got home I ended up getting a stern lecture from Dad along with added chores and a reduction to my allowance that month but that was about it after that day every time sis asked me for money I asked her to sign an IOU she really didn't
like that update to my mother tried to have me sent to military school and forged my dad's signature blows up in her face after the last time I stood up to my mother when she threatened to spank me link she seemed to get more wary that if she did try to attack me it had end very badly for her so she mostly just yelled at me she didn't lay a finger on me again until the events of wanting my house years later I thought nothing of it and just continued with my usual routine of school
and odd jobs my 15th birthday was right around the corner and my dad presented me with an engine kit for my bike to help me get around town in he said I was better off saving for a car than a scooter and this would do in the meantime I ended up agreeing with his logic and kept saving for a car a few days later though I found a pamphlet for a military school while sweeping grass off the back patio after mowing the lawn it was on the ground and under a chair near where my Mom
liked to sit and drink wine I had a bad feeling she was cooking up some kind of crazy scheme so I waited till my dad got home to show him what I'd found he was pretty mad but didn't jump to conclusions so he went to see my mom with a pamphlet and asked her about it Dad honey what's this mom goes white at the side of the pamphlet it's nothing I've never seen it before Dad really because says if you were planning on trying to send kagle to military school you know I wouldn't allow it
that's when mom broke her facade and yelled he needs to learn some discipline he locks his door all the time and I can't even spank him anymore because he's too big this is the only way I have left to punish him for being a disobedient brat dad kagle did nothing wrong when he stood up to you because of your stupid favoritism if anything our daughter is the BRAT because of you and the way you spoil her and let her get away with stealing from her brother and as far as I'm concerned this discussion about sending
kagle to military school is over and if you try to send him then so help me I'll bring the hammer down on you any way I can Mom well I guess this whole family is just going to take away what little power I have left in this house then if I have nothing I may as well be nothing dad you and I both know you'd rather Keel over than be nothing stop being so dramatic that kagle is growing up and is his own man now with his own money mom then just stormed out of the
room the next morning before school I saw her furiously trying to stuff something into the kitchen trash bin I waited for her to leave for work and dug out what she was trying to hide it was an application for the military school filled out entirely in her handwriting it it required the signature of both parents or legal Guardians on it and there were two signatures on the paper I recognized mom's but the other looked like a pitiful attempt at trying to replicate dads he prided himself on his smooth and complex signature and there's no way
my mom could copy it without it looking like fraud I guess she realized that after she was confronted and gave up on trying to send me away I kept the papers and showed them to my dad later he was mad but figured she'd done that already and Let It Go but he filed the papers in his office just in case a few more months later it got out that my mother was having an affair with an old EXP boyfriend of hers from high school that was the last straw for my dad and he filed for
divorce and I went to live with him months later after he bought another house he sped up the divorce pretty quickly by pulling out the military school papers that my mom had forged his signature on and it wasn't just that he also had evidence she forged his signature one at least one credit card application and one other thing I don't recall that made mom fear being arrested for fraud and they went through Court pretty fast because she agreed to most of his terms mom got the house because Dad didn't want it but she also demanded
alimon and child support because my sister unsurprisingly chose to stay stay living with her the judge awarded my mom the child support and a minimum amount of alimony for a decade of monthly payments the alimony basically just covered my sister's allowance anyway mom was pretty mad about that and threatened to take him back to court but he held those forged signatures over her head for years to make her back down on the day I left to live and Dad's new house my sister stuck out her tongue at me and smugly said mommy told her that
she was a princess and the more deserving sibling and that's the reason why I was leaving the house I just shook my head and told her to think what she wants because I didn't care anymore then walked out the door finally feeling free as a bird my Rel Rel ship with my sister when she came to visit dad's house once a week only got worse after that until finally we stopped talking all together for years and I didn't really care to visit mom's house she pretty much got in my old room for a home office
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