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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Formal-Grocery5838 on 2023-09-15 22:42:42.

So I (24M) am a dragon ball fan. It’s something I’ve loved since I was a child and I bought some merchandise over the years. Basically I had a shelf in my room with some figures, some sets of dragon balls and a goku drawing I worked really hard on. My cousin (33F) comes over unannounced today with her three kids, (15M), (16F), and (14F). Now I love my cousin and her kids, I don’t mind them stopping by even when I’m not there. My cousins been like a older sister/mother to me all of my life. She told me they stopped by my place because the kids wanted to see me. I let her know I’ll be back in a few minutes. I had just left to go buy some groceries.

I return home put my groceries up and speak with her and the kids, all is going well until the 14 year old asks me for some money. I deny her request as I don’t get paid for another week and nothing special is happening so I’m not just out here giving money away. She gets infuriated and says I let her down. And yada yada. It’s whatever to me and we chill for a few hours and they leave. That was yesterday. I come home from work today and get a text from the sixteen year old saying “I’m sorry Unc, she just said she left something there” I’m mainly relaxed since she has a habit of leaving things and I go to my room. My shelf is annihilated, everything is thrown down and broken, all the figures are missing body parts, my dragon balls are broken and that drawing I spent 3 months on finishing is cut to shreds. And some of my hoodies and shirts are gone, my capsule corp hat is gone. I broke down crying and called their mom. I tell her I need her key back and tell her what her daughter did, I then let her know she owes me about $1,500 dollars over this and this is me being generous. I’ve spent well over 3K on this whole thing but I needed something back for this. She tells me she’ll give me the key but I’ll be seeing no money from this.

I tell her it’s her responsibility since they are her kids and she also just leaves the key open and in the world when I said it’s meant for her. Not her whole family. She said she didn’t care and I’m not getting any money that’s it. I’ve banned her from my house until she pays me and she says so be it and refuses to pay me saying it’s my fault for not locking my game room door. That door doesn’t even have a lock.

AITA for demanding she pay me back?