The Inheritance of Dust

New Money, No Need

Tuesday 7:30 AM, we were already on our way to Greenwich to visit Vivian and Chase and ask what really made them to forget us. My crew were already advising that I file to revoke the house and Company, but I had a better plan.

Me, Mike, Luis, Jamal, Tommy Jr., Sloane, with dusty boots from Elko roofs, jeans, $22 t-shirts, hard hats in the truck bed, HAWTHORNE in Sharpie.

We wanted to ask one question: why housewarming without inviting Jack?

We parked on Round Hill Road by 8:45 AM on tuesday. The Big house lights were on. Two new F-150s $72k each in the driveway. White sheet still over the pool house hole. Catering trash bag still by the garage, Hendrick's.

I had told Brown "Brown, don't file yet, maybe they were just excited, maybe they forgot to invite, maybe nice works." Brown said "Jack, page 4 clause, thirty-day clawback, I wrote it for this exact party." I said "Don't file yet."

So no revocation yet. No Sheriff, no email. Just house and company given away on Monday, housewarming at 6 PM the same day, now Tuesday morning.

Vivian came out the front door at 8:46 AM, in a tennis dress, white, visor, golf bag, going to the golf club house, Country Club rejoined Monday for $25k after two years banned, card went through.

Chase came out at 8:47 AM, blazer, Kade's Rolex, $8 Greenwich Coffee, going for morning party, Darien pools, New Canaan kitchens.

They saw six of us, Tacoma dusty, boots dusty, hard hats in truck bed, level.

They laughed. A dry and awkward laugh of mockery.

Vivian laughed first, loud, holding golf bag: "Jack! What are you doing here? With... your crew? In my driveway? With those filthy boots?"

Chase laughed second, coffee spilling: "Yo, Jack, Mike, Luis, you drove from Elko? For what? Housewarming was yesterday, you missed, 6 PM, forty people attended, forty-seven hundred viewers, Hendrick's, $145 a head, you were not invited, Elko dirt doesn't get invite to Greenwich."

Mike: "Chase, we came to ask why no invite, even after Jack had to sell 15% of his dirt just to save you?"

Chase cut, laughing: "Why no invite? Mike, you are a laborer, $22 an hour, you build stages that don't fall down, that is cute, but this is Greenwich, real business, three pools in Darien, two kitchens in New Canaan, no batteries that hum, just real houses."

Vivian to me, still laughing, and going to the golf club house: "Jack, sweetie, you were so nice yesterday, giving us the house and the company, so nice, and so stupid."

Stupid. She said it to my face, and it hit me really hard like she flung a golf ball at my face.

Vivian: "Stupid. You paid nine hundred million for leverage, wired from Tesla and Ford prepay loan, then gave away three point two million for free because you thought you were being nice. You are just dumb. We have six bedrooms again, we have Country Club again, twenty-five thousand, we have the company with five million line, we have two new F-150s. While you just have a large portion of dirt that is just stressful. And you will continue building houses for teachers who can't afford real houses."

Chase: "Jack, you were just a liability. Even after everything we did to you, I thought you would be wise enough to know that we never still loved you. But instead, you were just a liability, we just needed you to stand up and we have stood again, so you are liability again."

Liability. He said it to my face, this one was harder than the ' golf ball stupid '.

Luis: " Boss! we warned you. you decided to play nice and give away three million from a death you borrowed. "

Chase: "Luis, I own company that digs trenches, I don't dig trenches, laborer digs."

Sloane: "Mom, you are calling Jack stupid and liability after he gave you the house and the company yesterday?"

Vivian, opening Tesla Model X, $110k on $5M line: "Sloane, business is business, he was nice, nice is stupid in Greenwich, Elko was charity, charity is over, we are rich again, golf club house at nine, tee time, we don't need a dirt boy and his awkward crew with boots that scratch white oak."

Chase, opening F-150 $72k: "Jack, you and crew, go back to Elko, tend dirt, make bricks from dirt, make twelve lights on, we have Darien pools that pay real money, not teacher houses $280k, real houses $2M, we don't need liability anymore, we stood."

They got into the cars, and drove away, laughing, going to golf club house and morning party, leaving us six in driveway, with our dusty boots.

Mike picked up level: "Jack, we had said said don't, but you gave because you thought being nice would make you un-clouded. They held a housewarming without inviting you, and Now, they laugh at us in the driveway and call you stupid to your face and say you were just a liability."

Luis: "Boss, we need to drive back to Elko. We have houses and oak stages to complete before the end of the day."

Jamal: "Yes boss. Luis is right. The green board will mold if we stay later than we have stayed."

Sloane: "Jack, you going to call Brown now?"

I stood in the driveway of the big house I bought twice, once original Dad's, once inside nine hundred million, gave away at 8:07 AM Monday for free because I thought being nice would stop my being angry about eating in the kitchen for fifteen years, but instead they laugh and call me stupid and a liability to my face while going to the golf club house and morning party.

Me: " Yeah. Call Brown but don't file. I have a better plan."

I called Brown amd told him to meet me at Elko. I explained out gist to him and he sighed over the phone.

Brown: "I told you, Jack, I knew something like this would definitely happen. I've known Vivian since she married your father."

" So what is your plan Boss?"