My Parents Invited 20 Guests To My Lake House Until I Refused To Fill The Fridge

younger brother Kyle added laughing emojis.

I stared at the messages, exhausted. Then I typed one word.

No.

Mom replied almost immediately.

“You really think you can stop us?”

I didn’t answer. Instead, I called Margaret, my neighbor near the lake house.

“If anyone shows up this weekend,” I told her, “they do not have permission to enter.”

Then I changed every continue reading …