Am I the asshole for telling my mother that I don't want a relationship?

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(Bella Swan x identical twin sister)

I, 17 female, am an identical twin to my sister, Bella.

My mother, Renee 38 female, constantly favored Bella when we were young. She often mistook me for Bella and always called me by her name, but not once did she mistake Bella for me. It didn't help that our names rhymed (My name is Della). If Renee had actually looked at our faces she would see that Bella has brown eyes while I have blue.

Our parents are divorced so when I turned 14 I chose to live with my dad (Charlie 40 male) while Bella stayed with our mom. Bella and I didn't visit each other or our other parents. I was happy and content with my life. My dad and I had a closer bond due to shared interest while my mother and I had zero interest in each other.

Three and a half years pass and I'm about to graduate high school and go to college (I skipped a year), and Bella spontaneously decided that she wants to move in with dad and I while mom goes on the road with her new husband who travels a lot for work. I suspect that Bella actually wanted to drop out of high school and travel with them, but Renee probably didn't want that and decided this was a better alternative.

It's March and we only have two months of school left, and since I'm going to college next August Renee comes up with the brilliant idea that I can take a one year break to travel with her and her new husband who I've never met and don't even know the name of.

I told her no and when she asked why I was honest.

"Because A. Unlike Bella I value my education above everything and B. I'm not interested in playing the loving mother-daughter act for her new hubby who I've never even met" Renee starts getting upset and says that she doesn't know what I'm talking about since she just wants to spend time with me. That honestly made me laugh.

I told her that her and I don't have a relationship because of her blatant favoritism towards Bella. I did everything that I could to separate myself from my sister so that way she would love me for me and stop treating me like I was Bella 2.0.

I even started bleaching my hair at age 9 to make us look different.

None of that was good enough so I stopped wasting my time with her and focused on the people that actually loved me for me. Renee started crying and I just hung up as I was done with the conversation.

Bella and Renee's husband started blowing up my phone calling me an asshole and heartless bitch for how I treated Renee. I honestly didn't see a problem with it as I was just telling her the truth about how I feel until my dad spoke up and said that I could've at least given her a second chance before deciding that I wanted nothing to do with her.

So was I an asshole?

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