I texted Milo about a month ago, airing out my anger with him. He responded just last night with the most clinical, heartless manner of speaking. He was never an emotional person, but seeing the way he was talking makes me think that his therapist put him up to it as a way of “making amends”. He didn't apologize really, he just tried excusing his behavior with variants of “I was encouraged to do this so I followed what I was told.” And then he ended it with some nonsense about how he hopes I live a happy life and that “I was once told that some people you meet aren't meant to stay in your lives forever.”
Basically, he only had a modicum of concern for the situation and was just responding to me so my text wasn't needling at the back of his head anymore.
I got emotional reading it, of course, and mom saw me crying. She got pissed off when I said I didn't want to talk about it. And she said that there were some things said about me that she hadn't told me because she didn't want to make me more upset than I already was. I read her his response in exchange for her telling me about the dirt put on me.
For context, I was writing a novel a while ago about a boy who is sexually abused by his older brother as a part of the primary conflict. I never finished it and it's been on the back-burner for the past three years. My mom and stepdad have always encouraged my creativity and are also aware that I have a functioning moral compass, so it wasn't a cause for concern. Milo, when he first abandoned us, used my “incest” book as an excuse as to why he apparently felt uncomfortable around us. He later confessed that his discomfort had been completely fabricated and he was just grasping at whatever sounded disturbing enough to justify himself leaving. When I heard this I busted out laughing and said “What a fucking pussy. I'd rather be euthanized than have to live in his head for more than two seconds.”
Anyway, I wake up this morning to Johann and mom fighting about his family wanting to see him on the day he goes in for his prostate surgery. He wants them there and she does too, but she refuses to talk to them because they're inevitably going to bring up Milo and the townhouse drama. It's in a month. Goddamn, I'm kind of excited.