My mother was making shoes. Her eyes were getting worse and worse, and she couldn't even see the things in her hands clearly under the light.
"We're a family. I don't need him to repay me."
I sighed helplessly, "Mom, you think we're a family. Have you ever got anything from them?"
After a long silence, she said in a low voice, "Your father is gone. We have to take care of his family for him."
I knew that as long as my father didn't show up, my mother would never give up on this family.
However, I didn't know where my father lived at this point. If I directly question my grandmother, I will definitely alert her.
However, I would never let my mother give the money to them.
Early the next morning, Thomas went to work in the downtown. Because he didn't get the money, he didn't treat my mother and me well.
I didn't care, but my mother felt a little guilty and gave some allowance.
In the evening, my grandmother came to have dinner with us.
I was going to the downtown for SAT the day after tomorrow. The school booked a hotel for us.
My grandmother came at this time. I didn't forget that she threw my admission card into the drain in my last life, which made me unable to take SAT.
My grades were not very good. And I didn't want my mother work so hard. I didn't feel sad about it. So I naturally dropped out of school to work.
My mother was so angry that she fell seriously ill.
I looked at my grandmother's kind smile. Before I found my father, I had to let my mother knew they didn't deserve her kindness.
"Grandma, don't worry. The teacher said I was able to go to college. Just the tuition is a little high. I can surely make more money if I graduate from college. If Thomas doesn't get paid well, there's still me."
Although my grandmother was smiling, she forced it. She was thinking good for Thomas, while she pretended to be nice to me. Her expression was not natural.
It was time to sleep. She wanted to sleep with me for a night, since I was leaving home soon.
She had never made such an unreasonable request in her life.
Even when I was sick and had a fever, she had never taken care of me for a day.
Sure enough, my admission card disappeared the next morning.
4.
My mother searched the entire house, but she couldn't find it.
I looked at my grandmother and asked, "What were you looking for in my book last night? You left in a hurry after you found it."