I liked the part about Mom and Dad killing them again. I had a friend who was raised in a bilingual home, and sometimes had trouble with English idioms. One report card day, he told another friend, “If I brought home grades like that, my parents would kill me…Don’t your parents ever kill you?”
None taken. I doubt if I changed any lives the next day. I used to have recurring dreams (well into adult life) that final exams were upcoming, and there was one course I’d forgotten I had.
One of Bets’s ideas will make her rich and successful. This is not it.