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“Don’t judgewhen I met him”

“Yeah, and neither were you”

“If you’re not going to help yourself, Demi, I will help you”

“Goodnight, Moain?”

She has the decency to look guilty, but only for a moment before her shoulders square “I cairls to Wine Country They’re waiting out front now”

“Then you better go, and ” I slaainst it

“Be set there,” she says, then her heels carry her back down the stairs and out the front

I rollmy phone I make my way into the backyard, put on a freestyle playlist, and drop my phone onto a chair

I take a fewswitches, I quickly shift to the center of the grass, facing the large s

Ne-Yo and Juicy J’s “She Knows” starts huins to ht or pressure

Best feeling ever

I dance through an entire playlist, only pausing when I’m interrupted by a phone call

I take a quick drink of water, wipingit up

“Hey, Dad”

“Hey, sweetheart Bad time?”

“No, it’s fine I was just practicing” I take another deep breath “What’s up?”

“I got an alert from the bank,” he says with a short pause “There was an overdraft on your account”

I tense

She did not

I quickly walk into the house, tearingby the door

“Demi”

I pull back the side pocket and sure enough, one

Damn it!

My hand falls and I squeeze my eyes shut “I’m sorry, Dad I didn’t have a chance to check the balance I’ out of town for Krista’s birthday to to cover when I wasn’t prepared

“You’ve been spending es, but I can’t bite