My Crazy Sister-in-law

r family home behind our backs jus

a blind date with a sleazy, middle-aged divorcé- just to

ame out, she sho

threaten our entire family with

.

sat on the couch, faces grim, waiting

er, Kory, walked

r purse and flung it at me, cursing. "Cecelia, you little brat!

a notorious creep in the entertainment industr

erve to trick me into meet

ful, charming gentleman and in

shing, and out of respect for my broth

, Jonathan wasted no

in my ear, and tried to drag me into a ho

up, and had him sent s

learned that Ariella had orc

bus-all for a concert ticket that wo

tepping stone in her

gnity? She didn't ca

infuriati

w all ab

.

n silence, Ariel

me outside, shouting that I had to

hed bi

ed her acros

ld her and glaring at me with pure rage.

her to kick him

our wife tried to sell your own si

on the floor,

" He s

with him. Cecelia should feel lucky he even noticed her! And another thing-Arie

words left his mouth

and started beati

ily to be treated like this! So what if I'm a dedicated fan? Is that a crime? If you don't li

med out, slamming t

aside and ran after he

hit the back of his head against the fl

eartless

spared us

nd left without a

under his breath- "Wouldn't be so bad if he died. At least the

results cam

red a brain hemorrh

his side through the night

doctor said he had a good chance of fu

I never left his side. Even with a hired caregiver,

acle, my father

s stable. No majo

.

truly dis

sed, through his surgery and rec

ever asked about my

visi

make him pay for what he had d

to the family, that we needed to fo

eal with K

, we e

brother still didn't show up. My mother

atience, all t

he moment w

use wa

ing. "Oh... you came back for one last look, huh? Bad timing-the n

my key did

med the worst- The

who sold i

ospital, she had hired a real estate age

f value and threw the

rhood that we had bought a new p

had no reason

enragin

father had transferred the house into Kory's name, thi

ansfer it back onc

al owner, Ariella had full righ

home to

we went to Kory's ho

ur first time steppi

n he got married- paid in full. They had fur

ed in, she changed th

didn't want my

tanding, had let it go. Because back

o

and Ariella-Tha

.

long time before Kory

y. "What are you doing here? Great, just great. Ariella was f

f disdain and irr

d the stress of it all made him clutch

heck on him once! And now you're standing here, spewing this heartl

fore I knew it, my palm

-only to get her own taste of it. I grabbed her

or the kitchen. I pulled out a knife, then turn

ing the blade slightly.

their faces dra

d away, terrified that I

ue to my poor health, and even without a weapon, neither of them could

finally cracked. Tears spilled down he

er chance at getting those cov

t about to ac

on a front-row seat, finally tracking

0,

e found a way to steal it. So, she turne

he house, she would h

d to get. A few tantrums, a couple of threa

e house, but he also told her exactly

gone. The mo

o way to un

ing behind Kory, as if that coul

.

s her further, Dad sudd

to put the

sita

shou

ey had done, why sh

rm, her grip sur

pleaded

retched be

I slammed the knife b

r side, Kory and Ariella immedi

earlier fear

wanted to slap me right then and there

ewing the nastiest words she could think of. And she

ad slowly spoke up, "We're not going to dwell on the p

continued. "That means your mother and I have nowhere else to go. So, we'll be living with you from now on. I'm not in

p apartment or-better yet-move back to wherever you came from. Why should we take care of you? Blame Cecelia if

t the way he nodded in

y sold the house, took the money, and no

rage as he pointed a finge

chuckle. "Oh, please. I don't owe you

.

l into stunn

?" I

was. Even as a child, he never seeme

y visited, as if we were nothi

it up to his personality-

th

he stopped holding back and

brother wasn't biologi

my dad's nephew-

ied in a car accident, leaving Kor

he loss of her son, insisted th

e him as their own, promising that he woul

parents had just

ibility, but my grandmother's relentless pressure

y adopt

eir own. My mom poured her heart and soul into raisin

their own child for fiv

him buy a house and a car, and covered countless

ave him, every sacrifice t

ed an ungrate

st ridicul

h, he didn't feel even a

scoff and say, "I'm your nephe

g you have will be mine anyway. So really, I was

ough, Kory and Ariella pulled out a stack of paperw

ady there, dated the day a

nts were no longer useful, they ha

for you, just sign it.

ock, Dad

e I could even process what was happening-

hing in court," Dad said, standi

there,

ything else, dragging me out of the hous

dn't e

did was squeeze my hand and tell me th

.

next

nate the adoption went thr

t on, we were n

he entire time, practically gi

ympathy. "Wow, Cecelia, you're really screwed now. Still in college, and now you're stuck taking c

e I could

e limousine pulled up to

open the door. He bowed slightly before speaking, "Mr.