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- Authors: Leigh Lennon
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DOMINIC
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me? I don’t hear from you in, what,
three years? You’ve not shown an ounce of interest in your
grandkids, yet you’re calling me for money?”
My parents aren’t good people. They weren’t great role models when
raising my older brother, younger sister, and me. After twelve years, they
still pop up occasionally, feeling entitled to what they think they’re owed.
My brother and his partners have triplets. My parents haven’t shown an
ounce of interest in his children, much less their own.
“Daimen wouldn’t let us near them anyway.” Mom’s damaged lungs
from all the years of smoking make her sound like a chorus of frogs in a
pond at night. She’s in her fifties, but her voice indicates someone much
older.
“Why are you fucking surprised? As often as you knocked us around,
I’d not let you near them, even if Daimen did.”
“Dominic.” My mother pulls out my full name, like that’s going to do a
damn thing. “You’re the sensible one, not emotionally driven like your
brother or out-and-out unhinged like your sister…”
“Keep their names out of your fucking mouth. Considering you were
the one that put Daimen in the hospital more than once and threw Daria
across the room a time too many, I think they turned out far better than
could be expected.”
“Dominic, sweetheart, it’s your dad. He lost his job, and he’s been sick. I
wouldn’t ask, but…”
“Yet every year, it’s the same fucking thing. Don’t you realize that none
of us owe you a goddamn thing; I couldn’t care less if you breathed your
last breath.”
She begins with a sniffle until it turns into an out-and-out wail. “I can’t
live this life without your father, Dom. We need help. Please, don’t say no to
me.”
“Mother, listen to what I’m about to tell you, and don’t make me repeat
myself. Leave us the fuck alone, and while you’re at it, do us all a favor and
jump off a bridge.”
I end the phone call and push back in my chair, hitting the wall with
such force I bounce forward. Each time I speak with one of my parents, I’m
reminded of every pain, insecurity, and agonizing travesty at their hands.
The door connecting the main office space for Torano and Chambers’
Landscape Engineering opens slowly, and behind it stands my business
partner and one of my best friends. His eyes find my phone, which I’ve just
slammed down, and he asks, “Is it safe to come in?”
Bodhi has been a part of my life long enough that he understands the
fury that lives in me and how triggering it is each time my parents try to
insert themselves into my life.
“Are you going to tell Daimen?” Bo asks, taking a tentative step closer
to me.
“That our parents want him to write them a check, and then they’ll leave
us alone until the next time they think they are entitled to something that’s
not theirs?”
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