MonsterCrack wrote:
But my dad told me she was probably just being nice because she's new here, and warned me not to get in trouble with her or talk to her (but he doesn't live here, so he can't possibly enforce it.)
That would have been more than enough to make me give up. I don’t know your situation, but, if the established habit is for you to tell your parents everything you do—and live a simple and boring enough life so telling them everything you do doesn’t take too long—they’ll be suspicious when there are unexplained gaps in your daily routine. And, if you depend financially on them, even just partly, they can cut off their support for breaking their rules. I felt so completely dependent on them it didn’t even cross my mind to do anything without first making sure they approved of it. Besides, I was in a perpetual debt of time I had to spend with them, going back home, because I studied too much, so doing absolutely anything other than studying and what they told me to do was unthinkable.
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