Prompt: 047. inherited house
1. An aunt she hadn’t even met before had died and left her a house. The aunt and uncles she’d known her whole life probably wouldn’t have pissed on her if she was on fire.
A. An aunt she hadn’t even met before had died and left her a house. The aunt and uncles she’d known her whole life probably wouldn’t have pissed on her if she was on fire.
“Are you sure she meant to give her house to me?” she asked. “Maybe she meant another niece and got the names confused.”
The lawyer shook her head. “No, your name is right here in her will, and you are her only living family. She left the house to you.”
2. It was with a sense of guilt that he signed the paperwork accepting ownership of the family home. He knew his siblings would be pissed, but it wasn’t his fault their mom had left the house to him alone.
A. It was with a sense of guilt that he signed the paperwork accepting ownership of the family home. He knew his siblings would be pissed, but it wasn’t his fault their mom had left the house to him alone. And honestly he was extremely surprised that she had.
For his whole life, he’d known that he wasn’t his mother’s favorite kid–that was his older brother. He wasn’t the smartest–that was his youngest sister. He wasn’t the most charming–that was his middle sister. And he wasn’t the best looking–that was his older sister. Yet his mother had left him the house. And in the letter accompanying the will, she’d called him her sweetest child, the one that needed and deserved the most love.
He wasn’t sure if she’d been getting one last dig in, but he was grateful that she’d thought of him. Even if his brother and sisters were probably going to murder him once they found out he’d gotten the house, he was grateful to have this bit of proof showing that his mother cared about him.
3. “What do you mean he’s left me a house? I don’t know this man at all.”
A. “What do you mean he’s left me a house? I don’t know this man at all.”
“He was your great-great-uncle on your mother’s side, and he’s been estranged from the family for many years. In the letter he left, which I have a copy of here, he said that he met you once when you were a child and that he decided then that you were the only member of his family worth anything.”
“I don’t remember ever meeting him.”
“You were three-years-old at the time.”
