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I rubbed my temples and cradled the phone betweenroo show that see

“Girl,” my father hollered from his recliner “Get me another beer”

I ignored hierator “Mr Herndon, it only puts me over for one hour I can clock out for that hour and still work Please”

“And what happens if you get hurt?” he deoing to work the register if you aren’t logged in? I’m sorry, Daisy I can’t help you See you next week”

He hung up before I could argue my case any further My heart sank a little and I closed my eyes I’d had to use some of the money set aside for rent to pay for the overdue electric bill instead—before it got shut off Without that extra shift, we’d really be scraping by

“Girl!” ain “My beer!”

Tossing the phone on the counter, I grabbed the bottle of beer and twisted off the top We’d be in much better shape if my father didn’t drink all of our hteen, I stashed cash around the house in an effort to hide it, but that turned out to be a horrible decision My father always found the et paid Now, I had a bank account, but o on it as well

If he didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on beer and whiskey ajust fine

“Here you go, Daddy,” I said softly and handed the beer to him He barely took his eyes off the screen as he reached up and grabbed it from my hand “Hoas your day?”

“Shitty How do you think my day was? I swear, sorowled “Did you bring sos home for dinner?”

Plucking at the worn threads on the tattered green recliner, I tried to sht I reachedwith e that really didn’t support us, the Fry and Grill letthem ho

, but when Jerry orking, he kept a sharp eye on alked out with

“Ridiculous,” grunteddown there if you can’t feed me?” He reached for the remote to turn up the television, and I bit my lower lip It wasn’t exactly a dream job The place was crap; ers tried on an hourly basis to get in ht dressed in red and yellow stripes and sot to meet new people every day, and that was nice

“So what’s for dinner?”his eyes from the screen

“I thought that we’d have breakfast for dinner Scrao with it,” I said brightly as I leaned down to kiss him on the cheek “How does that sound?”