My Parents Took the $22,000 Hawaii Trip I Paid For

several blocks.

Finally, she said, “Can I ask you something?”

“Always.”

“Do you think I’m betraying my mom by letting you help me?”

I stopped walking.

People moved around us on the sidewalk, coats brushing coats, headlights gliding over wet pavement.

“No,” I said.

She looked down at her boots.

“She keeps saying I’m picking sides.”

I hated Megan in that moment.continue reading …