My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

like conquering kings. Her father’s face was flushed with alcohol as he drank whiskey straight from a bottle.

Her mother sat with a cigarette, ash falling onto a white wool rug I knew Matthew had vacuumed weekly. She laughed at something, head thrown back, smoke curling around her hair.

But the man who held my attention wasn’t either of them.

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