Kicked Out of Family Chat

It has been five years since I returned to my biological parents.

I have applied to join the family group chat more than a dozen times.

Each time, my request was ignored.

Eleanor, my mother and the group admin, always gave me a look of disdain.

"I forgot. Wait until you get your double degree, then we will see," she would say.

I finally did it. I earned a double degree from an Ivy League school.

I became a rising star among my peers.

Tonight, the whole family gathered for a celebratory di