CONFRONTATIONS AND WARNINGS

"Better drop the gun down, my child. You do not want to make a blunder that you will forever regret."

"First, I have never been your child, because we never got along well from the very fucking beginning, Gracia! And second, I am an adult, capable of taking responsibility for all my actions."

"Who said I want an arrogant bitch like you in my family? Don't be delusional."

"Yet you bore being around me for more than five years. You never tried to even get along. Why, Gracia?" I ask.

"Smart brain, Ellie! You are right. There is an incentive for everything I do in my life, which means, there is also a good reason why I condoned your intolerable bitchy self for all these years." She fumes, her eyes glimmering with rage and detest under the night lights.

I was right all along! She had a motive, and finally, she has admitted it.

"Why, Gracia? What are your fucking reasons?" I fume, dropping the gun from her head.

"You won't understand." She says.

"Try me! Maybe for the first time, I will