EM's daughter spent a year in my house.
***Pardon my Engrish. This is my first time to post a long story on Reddit... may be a lot of grammar mistakes because grammaly does not work in here (oops).
Here is the story. I was once lived in China, and now I'm studying aboard in North America. I'm currently in high school, grade 11, and this story happens when I was in gr 10.
EM = Entitled mom; D = her daughter.
My mom and my dad divorced a long time ago, so I currently stay with my mom here, only two of us with a small house close to my school. A REALLY small house just enough to fit in 2-3 people.
There's one extra room on the second floor that haven't been used by any one -- so my mom decided to host a student to our house for a year. Therefore the student can live close to the school and this can bring our family some income.
And that's how I met EM and D.
My mom told me that she knew D when she was in China, but not that familiar to her family. She seems like a nice girl, with good grades, even quite pretty. She is a year order than me so my mom thought we could be good friends, maybe she can help me with my grade. (I forgot to mention Im also a girl so it's not weird if we are gonna live together)
But she was TOTALLY WRONG with that.
The first month went fine, we spent time upstairs in our own rooms and had dinner together. EM sometimes call D and ask her hows going, she often respond EM with something positive.
Later D followed some Instagram models. She had a LOTS of interests on these models (there was no Instagram back in China, so I understand ppl get super curious about Google & Ins) so she asked us the nearest fitness center so she can exercise and get fit (post pictures on Ins). I was a member of these gyms so I told her where's the best gym I've been to and some cool features. She got the VIP card from the gym excercise often, about 2-3 times a week. (I spent most of my free time on gaming and video editing, so I guess that's a pretty healthy way to live)
Ok, so after she started her exercise journey, she gone mad ---- she decided to lose weight ---- by not eat anything.
Me: Wtf girl? You are so pretty and slim, why would you decides to lose weight??
D: No, I'm heavy af.
Me: You are heavy because you gain muscle from exercises. You should eat food on time....
D: No that's BS. Human can live with out eating dinner.
Not eating dinner....ok, I'm fine with that. That is a fast way to lose weight but obviously, it's not the best way. I was worried. My mom cannot force her to eat her food, she's not a family member and that's her choice to eat or not -- she paid for us so we better respect her decision.
She got thinner and thinner, until she almost turned herself into a living skeleton.
I remembered it was my friend's birthday, and he invited a lot of people to his party, including me and D. We ate barbecue with some Mexican hot sauce he brought from his Mexican uncle, with some home-made ice cream and bubble tea. That was a good meal until D started to cough and retching. We have to go home because it looks like a very serious problem. My mom was not home so I have to find some medicine for her. She just kept coughing and coughing beside the toilet seat --- no matter what she just can't vomit the food out.
A week later we received a phone call from EM, FROM CHINA. She was crying in the phone, blaming us treated D so bad that she's sick.
Too bad, my buddy was heading back to China that week, and EM forced my buddy (not our family) to brought D a lots of clothes, A LOT, A LOT of snacks and medicine. It end up with my buddy's suitcase full of D's stuff.
This is waaaaay too unfair for my buddy so I have to apologize for him -- because EM and D said nothing.
EM blame everything on our family, how we treated her daughter badly by not giving her food, not taking care of her.
(Here comes the most interesting part: D likes that birthday boy, and EM blames me for taking the chance away from D -- EM thought I'm his girl friend. OMG XDDDDD)
After a semester she left our family. EM deleted my mom's phone number and blocked all my mom's social media account. I sometimes met D in my school, we chat like strangers with no feelings.
Now she's 18, live happily with her new host family.
I think that because she paid triple --- however I feel bed for that family. You never know how much pressure they might received from D and EM.
Have a nice life EM.
Posted Mar 7, 2019, 5:41 AM UTC