Everything blew up three months later.
Eden sent me a copy of the paperwork for a house she wanted to buy.
Her next message read.
Eden: Nemo, I'm $80,000 short.
I replied.
I: I don't have that kind of money.
My phone rang almost at once. "Didn't you just get a bonus?"
"Where did you hear that?"
"Mom."
My mother had even told her the amount of my bonus.
I said flatly, "That's my money."
Her voice went cold. "Since when do you keep score over every little thing?"
"I should've started keeping score when you stole the money I needed to get to college."
She went quiet. Then she started crying.
Between sobs, she said she'd been young and stupid back then. How could I hold something against family for so long? Her life hadn't exactly been easy either.
I gave the performance 30 seco
