12/18/2025
Throwaway because this whole drama is stupid, I am ashamed of it. I(20F) was temporarily living with my mother, stepfather and stepsister(14). Me and stepsister were never close, she hates me and my mother, thinking that my mother "stole" her father away after her own mother passed. It has been that way for 4 years already and while she is in slightly better terms with my mother, she still constantly tries to disturb me because I am not as tolerant as my mother. As for my stepfather, he is quite okay but he would pretend to ignore me in front of my stepsister sometimes because she would throw a fuss about it. I was supposed to move to a rather far place to work and study. My father arranged for me to move in after renovations are done, bringing my dog with me. When I first brought my dog to my mother's a few months ago my stepsister seemingly fell in love with him. At first it was just me taking care of him, then we took turns taking him out, for a while I even thought that we could have gotten along better because we both love the dog. And one day my sister returned without my dog and announced that she had given him away, just to spite me. She got what she wanted and no matter how nicely or nastily I asked her she wouldn't tell me where she took him. I complained it to my mother and stepfather but they couldn't get her to talk either, she had this attitude of "try me" whenever she gets stubborn. I was to move in 2 days and I guess she wanted to keep my dog for herself or make me miss my cross country train. I know it is despicable, but I was worried for my pup and whatever she could have done with him. I sneaked into her room when she was not looking and took her mother's ash urn, I know this was precious to her, precious enough to be used to make her talk. I hid the urn somewhere she would never find. Sure enough, my stepsister lost it completely when she realized what I did, and similarly I'd never talk no matter what my mother or stepfather say. After all those screaming ๐ฎ and crying she finally gave in and admitted that she brought him to her friend's. After taking the trip and passing my dog back to me, she demanded to have the urn back but I did not tell her until ๐ถ my day of departure, in case she wanted to pull some sick prank again. Everybody I know of, including my own father, thinks that I took it too far. While in the end nothing really bad happened, I did it in the ๐ worst way possible(quoted by my mother, who did nothing to help either). It was my stepsister who started it, she knew how important my pup is to me and she tried to take him away from me, so I used similar way to make her return him and it worked. I didn't do it out of spite, just making use of ๐ฅ what I could to get my dog back. So in this case, AITA?
