So, she immediately took out her cell phone and called her father.
As soon as the call was connected, she cried out and said, “Dad, I want to leave them! I don’t want to have anything to do with them again!”
Her father was very surprised and asked, “Who are you talking about? What happened?”
Lolita said angrily, “It’s the humanitarian organization that you’re collaborating with! They have no respect for me at all. They asked me to be on standby for them today and promised to give me a Hermes Himalaya handbag, but they suddenly went back on their word and kicked me out of the truck!”
Having said that, she added aggrievedly, “Dad, I want to draw a clear line with these people from today onward. I’ll be myself from now on, and I want nothing more to do with them!”
Lolita thought that what she had said would make her father feel sorry for her and that he would support the decision she had just made, but she never dreamt that her father, who was on the other end of the phone, would suddenly become furious!
He yelled through the phone, “Lolita, are you crazy?! Do you know how you and your family got to where we are today?!”
Lolita subconsciously blurted out, “Of course! It’s because I worked hard to get this! I skipped my classes every day, I held signs and protested everywhere, and I also fought for the environment! How could our family be where we are today if it wasn’t for my hard work?!”
When Lolita’s father heard this, he scolded immediately, “Shut up! If they hadn’t been working behind the scenes, even if you dropped out of school at a young age and went to the street to shout until your voice became hoarse, no one would even take a second look at you!”
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