Sam has failed college and is forced to return home to her ultra-strict mother. When she is pushed too far, the recent freedom giving her a taste of a different life, Sam snaps and shouts back. It isn't long until Sam needs to find a new place to live and only has one place to turn.

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Sam’s Adjustment

By Elfy

“What do you mean you lost your scholarship!?” Helen shouted.

“My grades weren’t good enough.” Sam muttered with her head bowed. She had been dreading this and had tears in her eyes before she had even told her ultra-strict mother the truth.

“You failed!” Helen put a hand up to her forehead. She looked equal parts angry and upset. She towered over Sam despite not being that tall herself.

“I… I tried!” Sam exclaimed desperately, “But it was really hard!”

“I bet you spent all your time and the money I gave you partying.” Helen said angrily.

“That’s not true!” Sam responded. The tears were starting to flow.

Sam was only half-lying. The truth was she had very rarely ever been away from home before so when she was dropped off at her campus she had been quickly intoxicated with the sense of freedom that college life brought. She was a smart woman and near perfect grades had got her a scholarship into college, it was the only way she would’ve been able to go because her mother certainly couldn’t afford to pay her way. They weren’t super poor but they didn’t have that kind of money lying around. The one exception was Sam’s cousin, Jade, who was the same age as her but a prodigy in the stock markets. Although she and Jade were close Sam never wanted to have to ask her for money, she was simply too proud.

“I can’t believe this…” Helen shook her head and turned her back on Sam, “What would your father say if he saw this?”

Sam sniffled. Her father had died when she was very young. It had forced her mother to have to juggle looking after her with working minimum wage jobs, sometimes more than one, to keep a roof over their heads.

“Is there nothing you can do?” Helen asked as she turned back around. Her face was as hard as stone, “Can’t you tell them about your… condition?”

“Mom!” Sam looked up angrily, “It’s not a condition! Besides it’s fairly obvious to see…”

Sam wasn’t like most of the other students. In fact, to look at her, people might assume she belonged in the nearby nursery rather than the prestigious college she had attended. As far as Sam knew she had been born a regular baby girl just like any other but it was soon noticed that she wasn’t physically developing as expected. She was taken for all sorts of tests and scans but developmentally they could find no problems, she was simply very small. It meant that despite being in her twenties Sam was still little more than a toddler in size. It was something she was very self-conscious about.

Of course, being so small, Sam had faced a lot of challenges in her life. She had been bullied, she was always being mistaken for a lost little girl and even at college she had to make sure she always had her student ID on her. She couldn’t get served at the bars easily, some places didn’t even let her in.

Thankfully Sam had found some friends who were able to look past her lack of size. They had a lot of fun together, too much fun it would appear. After spending her childhood being isolated and without friends she had jumped into the college’s social life with both feet. Unfortunately that meant her grades suffered and despite repeated warnings from professors she eventually started failing classes. By the time she really understood she was in trouble it was too late. She had failed to meet the conditions of her scholarship and was forced to leave and return home.

“You’ve really let us all down.” Helen said, “What are you going to do now, hmm?”

“I don’t know…” Sam answered honestly.

“That’s not good enough!” Helen shouted, “If you think I’m going to let a freeloader live here you’ve got another thing coming!”

Sam winced and curled up her fists. To say she wasn’t close with her mother was something of an understatement. Helen was a rather mean woman, she had always demanded perfection from Sam and whilst that might’ve helped her get into her scholarship programme it probably also contributed to her getting kicked out. Growing up Sam was never allowed to attend parties or functions, she was never allowed to join any clubs except the ones Helen picked out simply because it would look good on college applications and she was basically forbidden from having friends. It was hard to be friendly with people when you could never see them outside of school. The taste of freedom had gone straight to her head.

Sam had long ago come to the conclusion that Helen saw her as little more than a means to an end. She was supposed to get a good degree, get a good job and move to a nicer house and take her mother with her. What she wanted had never really entered the equation.

“I… I’ll get a job…” Sam said.

“Too right you will!” Helen yelled, “But what are you going to be doing, eh? You were supposed to become a doctor or something. Now you’ll be sweeping floors at the local fast food place. You were supposed to get us out of this!”

“Oh, shut up!” Sam finally yelled back. It was not something she did a lot as the punishments for talking back had always been severe, “What about what I want? Do you even care?”

“Of course I do!” Helen was going a little red in the face, “Look at everything I sacrificed to make sure you could get the right grades, do the correct activities and get into a proper college!”

“I didn’t even want to be a doctor!” Sam shouted, “And you never asked me what I wanted to be!”

“As your mother I know what is good for you.” Helen replied. Her volume had dropped but that just seemed to make her words more menacing.

“You’re not a mother, you’re a drill instructor!” Sam screamed. Years of pent up anger coming out of her in seconds, “You didn’t want a daughter, you wanted an investment! Well I’m sorry I didn’t measure up but maybe if you hadn’t ruined my life I would’ve done better!”

“So this is my fault?” Helen asked. She was shouting again and pointing at the letter terminating the scholarship, “I failed your classes did I?”

“You set me up to fail.” Sam’s fists were clenched so tightly her knuckles had gone white.

“I don’t know where I went wrong.” Helen shook her head, “I set you up for success and the moment you get left alone you throw it all back in my face. It’s never your fault though. Oh no, it’s always someone else’s fault.”

Sam was gritting her teeth so hard she thought they might shatter. She always knew this conversation would be rough but she hadn’t expected to get so angry. Perhaps her brief time experiencing freedom at college had made returning to what she had before that much more unbearable.

“I suppose you’re going to just sit around at home all day now.” Helen continued, “Playing your video games and expecting me to pick up after you. Well, let me tell-…”

“Shut up!” Sam finally screamed unable to take it anymore, “Just shut up!”

“How dare you…” Helen started in a shocked whisper.

“You’re a bitch!” Sam exclaimed. Now that the cork was out she couldn’t stop the emotions from spilling out, “You’ve always been a bitch! I hate you! You’ve ruined my life!”

Sam could see her mother’s face harden as if it was carved out of stone. If there was one thing Helen hated it was swearing, she would change the channel if she heard any curse words and Sam wasn’t allowed any games or music that had bad language. Screaming these things at her was a capital offence in Helen’s eyes.

“Get out.” Helen pointed at the door. Her voice was eerily calm which was much scarier than the shouting that preceded it, “Get out and don’t come back!”

“But I…” Sam started.

“Get out now!” Helen was shouting again.

Sam was in shock. She hadn’t expected this. She had walked in that morning and shown her mother the letter announcing the bad news, her suitcase was still next to the door. Her mother was looking at her like she would tear her apart if Sam didn’t hurry. With wobbly legs Sam started over to the suitcase, she wondered if she should apologise, if apologising would even do any good at this stage.

Helen walked powerfully and wrenched the door open. Sam slowly walked outside wondering if this was really happening. As she stood on the porch she turned around with the intention of apologising but before she could get a word out the front door was slammed in her face. She stared at the white door with her mouth hanging open.

“But… Where am I going to go?” Sam said quietly.

As Sam made her way towards the street she kept expecting her mother to open the door and tell her to come back inside. The door didn’t open. Sam reached the street with her suitcase being wheeled behind her. She saw the net curtain on the front window twitch but there was no more movement. Trying to keep her panic under control Sam started walking down the road.

Sam walked down several streets before finally coming to a stop at a bench. She laid her suitcase down and used it as a step to get up and sit on the metal seat. People were walking past her, most stared as they went.

“Hello. Are you lost?” An older man asked as he came across Sam, “Where’s your Mommy?”

“I’m fine.” Sam replied. She tried to swallow back her anger as she held out her ID to the confused man. She was so often confused for a child that she always made sure to have her ID close to hand, “I’m an adult.”

“Oh.” Was all he could say before he hurried away.

Sam sighed. The truth was that she was kind of lost. She had nowhere to go. She didn’t have many friends and certainly not ones she was close enough to that she could suddenly knock at the door and ask to stay, she hadn’t seen most of them since she left for college. That left her with family and thanks to Helen’s controlling nature most of the family wanted nothing to do with them. Helen was seen as quite the black sheep and Sam barely knew most of her relatives. There was however one exception.

Pulling out her phone Sam scrolled through her contacts until she found Jade. One of the few people who Sam was allowed to hang around with as a child, Jade was her cousin and one of the few people that she had stayed in contact with at college, though it amounted to little more than the odd “how are you?” on social media. She was a few years Sam’s senior and it had been quite a while since they had seen each other face-to-face. Sam dialled the number.

“Hello?” Jade’s voice said after a few rings.

“Jade, hey, it’s Sam.” Sam replied.

“Oh wow, I wasn’t expecting to hear from you. What’s up?” Jade asked.

“Well it’s kind of a long story but I have a favour to ask…” Sam bit her lip.

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