never expected me to repay everything.”
“How convenient.”
“It’s true.”
I turned toward Mom.
“Is she telling the truth?”
Mom sat beside me.
“Yes.”
That answer stopped me cold.
“What?”
“I never really expected Melissa to pay all of it back.”
I stared at the documents.
“Then why write everything down?”
Mom took the notebook from my hands.
“Because I needed to remember how much she had already received.”
“For what?”
She looked at me.
“For you.”
I couldn’t speak.
Mom turned several pages.
There was my name.
And beneath
