John’s father, Chris Hunt, said to Mike, “John’s job is priority. If he loses his job over this…”
Chris stopped short of finishing the sentence, but by the look on his face, Chris was putting the blame on Mike.
It was Mike’s idea to turn the media against Liberty and Serenity.
“Uncle Chris, John has been with his company for a long time. His boss won’t fire him over something so trivial. I’ll clarify that John has nothing to do with the whole thing.”
Mike ran a home business, so whatever was going online had no adverse effect on his business.
Feeling assured, Chris phoned John and told him to explain his innocence in all of this before potentially losing his job.
“The girls are too much,” one uncle reproached. “Fine if they didn’t want to pay. Why did the girls have to ruin us like this?”
Although the Hunts’ tweet about the ungrateful granddaughters went viral, the post did not spread as far and wide as they liked. Serenity’s response, however, received a lot of attention, and the Hunts began to get calls from friends and family about it.
Many strangers even called in to give the family a piece of their minds.
The Hunts had no idea whether Liberty and Serenity were subjected to cyberbullying, but they were now in the eye of the storm. The public backlash was happening both online and in real life. There were people who came to the hospital to chew them out. If it were not for the hospital’s security guards chasing the people away and threatening to call the cops, the Hunts would probably be in direct contact with the public’s fury.
The family might even get rotten eggs thrown at them.
One of Serenity’s aunts broke her silence. “I wasn’t in favor when you all decided to do this. Mom and Dad signed an agreement with the girls over ten years ago that they would owe us nothing. Now that Mom’s sick, you’re all ganging up on the girls to fork out cash.
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