SCENE FOUR (CW in description applies heavily)
(The family is sitting in silence with COSMO squirming around in the baby seat. NORA is constantly switching glances between LINNIE and CHELSEA as they looked down to eat their steak)
NORA
Soo Chelsea…how was your day? Do anything interesting? Along the lines of lying to your own mother and making her look like the town dumbass?
LINNIE
Nora please…she-
NORA
Shut the fuck up, bitch. No one asked you. Now, answer my fucking question Chelsea. Anything interesting happen?
CHELSEA
Uh..No mom. Just a typical day.
NORA
Oh..Well in that case, care to explain how THIS came to out mail? (throws the envelope, Chelsea's papers flying everywhere). We talked about this, Chelsea! Have we not? We agreed on you going to Wishbrook where your father and I could keep an eye on you!
CHELSEA
B-But I got a full ride scholarship at Harmony! I only got half tuition off here..Aren't you always going on about how you wanted to save money?
NORA
First off, Chelsea. What I do with my finances is none of your fucking business! Second, moving your dumbass to a college further away would cost more money that just doing what you're told and attending Wishbrooke. I'm not paying out of state room and board just so your ungrateful ass can party and get drunk with your music major friends. You hadn't done nothing to deserve those privileges.
CHELSEA
What do you mean? I've gotten straights As my entire high school career, and not once did you say you were proud of me! Can't I just be proud of myself since you clearly aren't proud of me.
NORA
Getting straights As is an expectation, not an achievement you fucking narcissist. That's the problem with your generation. You want a fucking participation trophy for everything!
LINNIE
N-N-Nora sweetheart, that's not at all..
NORA
(turns around and punches LINNIE in the right eye, causing him to fall from his chair. COSMO starts to cry) I said shut up! You shouldn't be talking right now, bitch! Just eat your food, look pretty, and be quiet. Goddamn…anyways, I'm not gonna pat your fucking back for doing the bare minimum. As Cosma women, we HAVE you get a good education in order to get good jobs to provide for these lazy men. They're too stupid and weak to understand the real world, so that's why it's our job to take care of them. What if you wanted to marry that useless boyfriend of yours? Don't you think you need to provide for him?
CHELSEA
Garrett can take care of himself, mom. He wouldn't marry me to be dependent. He would marry me because he loves me.
NORA
Oh bleh! Cry me a river, barbie! I should've know you would end up just like your pussy father! Linnie, get the hell up from the floor! It's dirty down there, bitch! (LINNIE slowly gets up, sitting back down at the table). Look, I don't give a fuck about who you marry, but you're not going to Harmony. It's too far away and we need you around to watch COSMO and help with your part of the rent.
CHELSEA
But Mom! I'm 18,000! I don't need your permission to go!
NORA
I don't care if you're 100,000! I am your mother, and whatever I say, goes! You're not going to aste your life in some music program in a piece of shit college! You're gonna be a business major at Wishbrooke, and that's final!
LINNIE
N-Nora honey...I-I don't think she would be very happy there..
NORA
(takes her beer bottles and slams it on LINNIE'S head) My god, you don't ever learn, do you, Linnie? Men like you should be seen, not heard! Now, this'll be the last time I'm gonna tell you. Be. Quiet. Else, I'll tear your little ass up like a pinata.
LINNIE
Y-Y-Yes Dear. I'm sorry…
CHELSEA
But you're not paying for my college! Why do you get a say in what I do with my life? Why do you care!
NORA
Because, I need you to take over my company if something happens to me. I also need someone to run it along side me, because I'm getting shit luck with my customers.
CHELSEA
That's not really my problem though.
NORA
EXCUSE ME! Don't you EVER talk back to your mother like that, you ungrateful bastard!
CHELSEA
Mom, the past couple of minutes, you've done nothing but yell, curse, and hit me and dad over something that technically isn't official yet. Why do you think I'm gonna help you now? Even if I was into business like you wanted, I wouldn't want to run a company with someone as mental as you.
NORA
It's because I'm your mother! You owe me everything! I gave you good food, and a home! I allow you to go to school! I allow you to use my internet! Shit, I gave you LIFE!
CHELSEA
Ok first off, you're a woman. You did not give birth to me. I don't think people like you can give birth anyways. Second, I didn't ask to be here! You provided me with everything because that's your job! If you didn't want kids, maybe you should've kept it in your pants!
LINNIE
O-Oh dear! Chelsea honey…
NORA
(punches LINNIE again before leaping across the table to attack CHELSEA, smashing glass and hitting her with every inch of strength she has) You. Do. Not. Talk. To. Your. Fucking. Mother! Like. That. You know what? You know what! (as LINNIE tries to stop NORA, she throws him onto the other side, forcing him to land on his back, kicking him until he begs her to stop). Both of you! All 3 of you! Out my house…NOW!