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My dad, Aaron, his fiancé Tina, her daughter, Lola and myself F21 recently got back from a trip to India. I have an area at their house, like an insulated shed. I’ve stayed here on and off during my teen years and have had countless adventures in there.

Before the holidays ended, Lola had a few friends over in my shed while I was not there. I don’t have any issues with her being there and she did rearrange a few of my things so her friends wouldn’t be tempted which I do appreciate. Someone still managed to find my bong and it got broken. I found multiple pieces of glass on the table, ground and even in my shoe. At this time Tina was there and she acknowledged that her friends had been in there and we both understood. I was upset at my property being broken but I haven’t been smoking as much and didn’t “need” it so I wasn’t distraught. When Lola got home she came to debrief about things, I asked and she explain. She told me that she did her best to hide things but a girl got it out. She said no but it was too late. At the time I purchased this accessory it was $150. She also owed me $25 for a previous thing, so I asked for $175 which she sent to me immediately. She hates people being upset with her. She has a job with a few shifts a week. She ever so often gets me to purchase things for her that she cannot and in return I get a $5-10 tax. This works for us, we hangout with both our friends together, we stay up late talking about silly and deep things, we have a number of internet brain rot sayings and stims that no one else understands. She’s one of my favourite people and I love being the big sister I never had. She paid and we continued with our usual banter. Aaron approached me this afternoon and said he’d been to Cloud 9 today and the exact bong I had was $55, so why did I charge her so much? I explained the numbers to him and he told me “you need to act like an adult here, that’s most of her pay check.”

I told him when you break or lose another persons thing you are responsible for the replacement of it. He went on about how it’s a different price now than what it was so she should pay for the price it is now. We went back and forth for a while. Lola got home and we spoke but not about this situation before she needed to leave to get ready for a party. We’ll speak when we get the chance, I’ll send her money back if she desperately needs it or she feels wronged. I’m happy to have a conversation about things and get to a middle ground. I know she just wanted the situation to be over with. Aaron only brought it up because she asked for money to get a friend a birthday present for the party and he was confused because she’d just been paid and that’s we when she explained the situation to him and Tina. Tina knew that we’d handle it between the two of us. I can understand she might not be ideally happy about the amount paid. Am I the asshole for charging her what it cost to me instead of its current price? Had to cut a lot for word count