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My uncle James wants me to give his daughter, Ruby a place to live and get her a job at the supermarket where I am working. If Ruby were any other relative I would be willing to help, but Ruby herself is someone who I would never let stay under my roof.
I'll give a little bit of background about Ruby. She is ridiculously smart. She was discovered to be a very high IQ child, much smarter than anyone else her age. She completed A Levels at the age of 12 and got exceptional results, and made local headlines because of this. In spite of this she still stayed on at school so she could be with her friends, but the school brought in ''specialist'' university-level material to keep up with her ability. I was a fairly ''average'' student and my parents were always banging on about the fact that Ruby was so smart she needed her own special work whereas I was doing the same as anyone else.
Ruby's parents seemed to let the fact that they had a local celebrity for a daughter go to their heads. They completely spoiled her and gave her whatever she wanted. She used to pick on me at any family gathering and they used to laugh when I was crying, but if I did anything back (even just telling her to leave me alone) she would have a huge crying fit in front of everybody and her parents would demand that my parents ''control'' me.
Since we live nearby I ended up going to the same school as Ruby but was two years younger. Ruby is very pretty, and she had a gang of other pretty girls who used to follow her around. They used to torment other girls and humiliate them until they cried. Ruby would make of girls for their weight, their appearance, their clothes, anything she could use to upset someone. They frequently targeted people in the younger year groups including me and my friends. I had huge insecurity issues most of my teens due to Ruby and her friends.
Ruby ended up going to a top university like she was always going to. However, things ended badly when she was expelled for bullying and threatening a girl on her course who was dating a guy she liked.
Since Ruby has been back home she has been on a complete downward spiral. She started partying, drinking heavily, smoking weed and sniffing cocaine. This was a few years ago, but since then the drinking/drugs have really taken a toll on her mental health. She's still smart AF but she's now impulsive, paranoid and has these weird mood swings. She can literally switch on anyone over nothing. When my parents visited hers and told them that I was now a manager at the supermarket, she ran over from the other room and started screaming in my mums face not to rub her failures in her face, even though my mum didn't say anything about her or even know she was there. She's never had a job and is living off her parents money, using it to go out partying and to buy more drugs and alcohol. She has been in trouble with the police for drunk street fighting and her mum is on the phone to mine about the screaming matches they have.
I recently moved in with my boyfriend after my promotion. I love our place. We got a dog too and everything is great. Last week I got a phone call from Ruby's dad asking me to meet him for lunch. When I went he explained to me that he wanted Ruby to get some ''life experience'' and stop being dependent on them. He said he wanted me to help her get a job at the supermarket and also let her stay at our place. I told him I would consider it, but after all Ruby has done to me in the past, I'm do not want her living under my roof. I don't want her near me or my boyfriend at all, especially considering how unstable she's been in recent years. However, my parents have been urging me to say yes for some reason.
How do I say no in a way that doesn't make me seem like the bad guy?
TL;DR: My uncle wants me to let my cousin who tormented me for years live with me and my boyfriend, even though she is a mentally unstable troublemaker.
Submitted April 25, 2019 at 01:29PM by skipsaisajio http://bit.ly/2GGzKaH
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