My mother’s sister never had children, but she had a gorgeous three-bedroom apartment in the middle of the city and serious health problems. Her husband was a collector, so my aunt’s apartment was more like a museum.
My little sister, Lida, has a lazy husband and two kids. They live in a room they rent in a dormitory. When my sister found out about my aunt’s health problems, she immediately rushed to visit her to complain about her difficult fate.
I must say at once that our aunt is a very unpleasant person, who does not give any honey, but give someone to teach. For several years she invited my husband and me to her place and in exchange she promised us that she would give us her own place.
We had our own place and turned down such a “good deal”, we just bring her groceries and medicine sometimes, and I clean her house. We do all this out of a sense of duty, but not because of my aunt’s square footage. After Lida visited her aunt, she and her family went to live with her relative after a few days.
My sister and I never got along, she always envied me: I have a hard-working and loving husband, an excellent son, a good job, high pay and my own place. My sister only called me when she needed to borrow money.
Sis, however, has a chicken memory, and so she never paid back her debts. After I got pregnant for the second time, I had no time for my aunt, although my husband continued to bring her packages of all sorts of goodies from time to time. After my baby was born and she was six months old we went to meet the great-aunt. When I got to the door of the apartment, I heard screaming, I later realized that it was my little sister screaming:
– Until you write a deed of gift, I refuse to feed you, so turn around and crawl back in, and I want you to stay out of your doghouse tonight.
I rang the doorbell. When Lida saw me, she wasn’t going to let me inside the apartment and started to be rude to me:
– Don’t even dream of it, it’s not the apartment you want!
My in-laws only let us into my aunt’s place after I threatened the police. In the time since I hadn’t seen my aunt, she’d grown a lot older, even ten years older. When she saw me, tears coursed from her eyes.
– Why are you crying? Well, quickly tell her how you have a good life with us and tell her to piss off. Look, she didn’t even lazy to bring the child to us!
– There was only one bed left in my aunt’s room. They even took the closet out of her bedroom, and piled all her stuff on the floor instead. There was no apartment left in the apartment, and Auntie herself was no longer wearing her fancy jewelry. It became clear to me that my sister’s spouse was still sitting at home and they were living off what they would get from the sale of my aunt’s possessions.
I said I had to go to the bathroom and from there I texted my spouse that my aunt needed to be rescued from living on the same property as my sister. Then I went back to my aunt’s room and started telling her about all the events that had happened during that year in my life. When I was telling my aunt about my birth, I told her: “You have to wait a little while,” and at that very moment I squeezed her hand and winked conspiratorially. My relative understood and looked at me gratefully.
My sister was trying her best to get me out the door, and her husband kept coming in and asking me if I was staying out too long because my baby was getting cranky. I told him he was just hungry and asked to come out so I could feed my little girl. My husband arrived exactly one hour later, along with the local precinct officer. My sister was in no hurry to open the door. Then I told my family that it was my husband who had come to get me.
Frankly speaking, the policeman was an unpleasant surprise for my sister and her husband. I invited the guardian of order to my aunt and said:
– Look, this is the victim, I personally heard how they do not let her eat. They sold all the furniture, gold and appliances from her apartment. The aunt’s husband was a collector, they used to have a lot of valuable things in their house.
At Lida’s howls, the precinct officer asked her aunt:
– Do you want to write a report?
Her sister ended up with a minor scare, but her husband spent the next two years in the penal colony. My mother let my little sister and her children in, even though she’d kicked her out of her apartment with the rest of the family a few years earlier. My mother took offense at me and said that I would never inherit, but in gratitude for saving me my aunt left me her house as an inheritance.
My husband and I visit my aunt as before, we hired a nurse for her. I can’t even begin to imagine what she went through while living with my sister!
