At first, there was no proof. But every person in the home stepped out to claim they had seen me take the necklace.
All their words lined up exactly.
I knew so many matching claims existed only because Mom and Dad gave the command.
I dropped to my knees.
My parents stiffened.
Eyes burning, jaw tight, I said, “Dad, Mom, I’m begging you! I worked eighteen years for this day! With no proof at all, why must you push this charge onto me?!”
Mom gritted her teeth.
“If we don’t let you taste some hardship, you’ll only go further off track later!”
Dad nodded coldly. “That’s right. Only by letting this charge stay on you will you stop having any wild hopes!”
“I didn’t!!”
But my parents had no plan to hear a single word from me. Only Brielle.
As she walked off, she coldly smirked. “Didn’t sister act so proud that night? And now?”
On the day the judgment came, Western Meridian University withdrew my admission.
My parents wailed wildly in front of the reporters.
The headlines all praised them. [The Hopkins couple chooses law over family, even a daughter admitted to Western Meridian University cannot be allowed to be a thief!]
The Hopkins family’s stock price shot up.