My Sister Got a New Car While I Got a Bus Pass but My 18th Birthday Changed Everything

me. I hovered over decline offer. My savings were three thousand two hundred. Ten weeks of round-trip Uber would cost at minimum eighteen hundred, leaving fourteen hundred for an entire freshman year of textbooks and supplies. Declining was the sensible move. The Audrey move.

My thumb was on the trackpad when my phone rang. Not a text. A call. Grandma continue reading …