How can you be so useless? I'm trying to buy a house, and you can't even fork over the money. What good are parents like you?"
Instead of getting angry, Brian just looked worried and started scrambling for solutions. "What do we do? The deposit is 100,000 dollars. Should we try to borrow some money?"
I offered a "helpful" suggestion. "Mom, Dad, why not mortgage our home in the meantime? Once my lottery money hits, we can just buy it back. It should be in my account within a month."
Logan's eyes lit up. "Exactly! Let's go home and get the property deed to get the mortgage started."
Grace was still hesitating. Logan snapped, "Don't you want to help? You just want to see me fail to get this house, right? If I can't marry Flora because of this, you'd be happy, huh?"
I snickered quietly, thinking, "What a great son you've raised, Mom."
Once Logan started his tantrum, there was no stopping him. Grace and Brian had no choice but to nod in agreement.
As we were leaving, Yvette really played up her part, calling out, "Mrs. Watson, better hurry. I can't promise this house will be available much longer."