At the day of funeral.even though the mother of her husband has died, my mother did not come to the ceremony, saying I’m taking care of the shop
My grandfather too.there’s no relative of my mother that came. My father and I went to the crematory alone. It was a desolate funeral.
After that, I’m pretty much alone.
My parents comes back home but don’t eat there. My father never came near the house after grandmother died. I lived alone. The basic living expenses are put on the table at the living room and I spend them to buy my food. 3,000 yen a week, is put on every monday. Ah, they only supplement the money that’s left from the previous week, If there’s 200 yen remaining, then only 2,800 yen would be given at Monday. But.both of them forgets to supplement it often. There’s a lot of Bring this or that tomorrowin the elementary. With those sudden expenses, there’s two or three days where I don’t have anything to spend. That’s why.I use money carefully. Oh right.during the summer vacation on my fourth grade, my father went to a long term business trip.and yet, my mother didn’t come home for two weeks. At that time, I endured the three days eating gummy bears. There’s one bag of gummy bears with cola taste so I somehow managed the three days. It was written on my friend’s manga that cola is nutritious. Then, I bought up only the cola flavor. Well, even when the food is exhausted, I will be able to somehow survive as long as I gulp down tap water.
Oh, I keep all the receipts of the things I bought and put it on the cashbookto show it to mother.
It’s to check if I’m wasting money or not. That said, my mother hardly looks at the cashbook But, she’s checks it without notice.and if it’s not done properly I’ll be beaten up every day without fail. Well, she’ll get angry whatever I buy anyway You’re always wasting moneyshe said.
That’s why, I hardly have any friends at my elementary school.
I don’t have money. I don’t have bicycle so I’d just be a hinder to everyone. I can’t play. Well, it can’t be helped.
At my fifth grade.
One day, my mother told me that she’d take me to the shop. She never brought me there before. She told meIt’s not a place for children to play for.
Only on that day.I was made to wear clothes I pay respects at New Year at my grandfather’s house.
My mother stops at the nearby department store before going to the restaurant. .She bought me a tennis racket. Though I saidI don’t need thisshe bought it and pushed it to me forcibly. I hold to that racket and was taken to my mother’s shop. That’s where I. Met the cook and waitresses of the shop for the first time. My mother introduces me every time we meet another person. Then.my mother says that she’s having a hard time taking care of a selfish child. Saying that she’s working on the
PTA
children association at the town. Even though she never came at the parent’s association at my school. Finally, she says This child wanted it so much before so I bought him a tennis racket before coming here. I’m really troubled with his selfishness. I never said that I wanted such a thing though. My mother.is appealing on the people of the shop that she’s an Ideal family oriented mother Laughing. Making an unpleasant smile. Lastly.My mother went to a strange room called Manager’s room. It was a really strange room. It’s a narrow room and yet, there’s a luxurious chair and a massager on it. There’s no ledger, note, nor computers. A young cook on his late 20’s was summoned there. I was there and yet.My mother spoke to the cook.
.Sorry but I’m living a very happy family life.I don’t intend to have someone destroy it.
The cook made a terrible sullen face then saidUnderstoodthen he went out of the room.
My mother looked at me. Then said.
It’s really troubling when a young man gets serious immediately.
I’m my mother’s child and yet.
I’m just a fifth grader, and yet. She’s proud being popular!
I.
I came to hate my mother after that. I thought that she’s not like that before. That we might possibly be poorer than other houses. That’s why my parents are always working outside. That I have to stay at home alone. Because, when I meet my grandfather at New years.he always say.
Your mother’s doing her best so you have to support her with your gratitude
That’s why I believed.
.And yet. Seeing at mother’s President’s room.I cannot see my mother working hard at all! On the way back.mother took away the racket. I’ll give this a present to Yasuo-chan.She said. Surely it was the name of my mother’s next lover.I thought.
I went to a boarding boy’s school on middle school in the heart of a mountain.
That’s my grandfather’s alma mater. At grandfather’s time, it wasn’t a dormitory system. It was merely grandfather’s hometown.
Mother sent me there only to please grandfather.
I just thought of wanting to run away. Mother, father, and grandfather.from that house. That’s why I agreed immediately and entered the dormitory.
But to be honest.it was harsh.
Because bullying where your money is taken is common. For three years, it felt like a prison. But.grandfather died the year before last.
Grandfather.was really hated.
He’s rich and yet helped no one other than mother. When he died.the thought of his children thanking him because of the succession of the property anyway. Grandfather never lent money to his relatives even when they needed it by all means. He’s really stingy to the people of his company.and yet, he lived in luxury. He’s the only one who stayed at a high quality hotel at the company trip, and he purposely eats a special meal on the company’s party. That’s why.uncle succeeded the company after father, but nobody from the company would like to follow grandfather’s rule at his time. Thus.the company decided to reform. My mother got angry because of that. She stormed into the company. She had a big fight with uncle who’s the new president. Mother has nothing to do with grandfather’s company, and yet. Above that.my father’s working as an employee of that company!
She said absurd things about seeking the succession of the property, and Hand over all the stocks of the companyand Make her an officer of the company.
In the first place, she was hated along with my grandfather by the whole clan. That’s why.mother has been completely ostracized from the clan. The New Year’s card doesn’t come anymore. Our family wasn’t called though there was a cousin’s wedding.
Father.seems to have a good position when my grandfather was alive though.
After mother stormed in.he was demoted and proceeded to a subsidiary company. He’s somewhat pitiful.he was close to 50 and yet all of the unrelated work has been pushed to him. He grew old quickly.and became unenergetic. At the end of last year, when I consulted him about going to high school, he lost a lot of weight. He saidI’ll be taking night shift from the beginning of the year
So I decided on my high school by myself.
I hated the dormitory life.so I chose a school that I can commute from the house. I wanted to live with my father. Mother hardly comes back to the house anymore. In the end.mother succeeded grandfather’s old house. The house where mother was born and raised. The land and the building has some worth but.the clan hates grandfather so it was handed over to mother. Mother seems to have stolen it with her power, and was pleased.