After a brutal night shift, I found out my parents had planned a weekend at my lake house with 20 guests, without asking me.

a dime.”

Dad pointed at the camera. “I raised you.”

“And I repaid that by not pressing charges last summer when you used my emergency key without permission.”

The porch fell quiet.

A cousin whispered, “Wait, what?”

Mom edged closer to Dad. “Claire, stop.”

“No. You told them I invited everyone, didn’t you?”

No one answered.

That was enough of an answer.

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