“Are you seriously doing this to us right now?” Tiffany hissed while her face flushed with a deep red color that looked painful. I told her that I was indeed doing this, and she reminded me that they had driven three hours to get to my place.
“I did not invite you to come here,” I replied, which prompted Brandon to step toward the camera and tell me that my behavior was not cool. I told him that what was actually not cool was showing up with eight people and a key after I had already said no.
Tiffany laughed in a way that sounded like it was cracking at the edges before accusing me of making them all look insane. I looked at the screen and felt something inside me lock into place as I told her that she was doing that to herself.
People are always more shocked by the first visible boundary than they are by the hundred invisible violations that occurred before it. My name is Ethan Miller, and I am a thirty two year old software engineer who has always been treated like infrastructure by my family.