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Chapter One

Kennedy

I think I’h et iant room, I feel co away at a large desk, the clicks of her fingers hitting the keys the only sound in the big, e, trying to control nores ray hair is cut short to just below her ears and she’s wearing thick-fra about her is professional and says she belongs here Her outfit is stylish in a way I could never put together, even if I had the ly sweet to ive me a snide look like the women downstairs had done

I run one hand across hs in an atteray skirt I have on I’ot it in the ninth grade when I’d joined the debate team and needed to look professional My stint at that size lasted about as long asinto my stomach, and I pray that the button in the back won’t pop

I’ walking in yesterday I found them in a discount bin in a shop down the street fro with a simple button-up white shirt I feel so plain, even a littleto look older, but I’ it off

I tried my hand at a little makeup and even took the time to put soazine I saw, but I’ to pull off

What a here? I shake my head at myself I’m a horrible liar and I know it The absolute worst at it When I was seven, I broke a glass case ned football in I’d confessed before he could even ask randpa asked me how my day at school was, and out of my mouth came details of how Cody kissedI couldn’t even fake it for a second I si myself to do it

How I think I’ll ever pull this off, I have no idea Because you have no other choice, I remind myself I need this job Correction, I o

The little one I have no idea how I a to ht actually be happy to lose the place, though Maybe I can find a local YMCA to stay at or so to really creep me out

His aparthto He also implied there are other ways to pay my rent Ways that don’t involve money It made my skin crawl Mr Kelly was easily sixty years old He is always in paja out of his mouth And I a her rent in the other ways he was talking about I’d heard her earn her rooust

He was always a little too handsy He finds neays to put his hands onI try to find ways to avoid hi insideabout a leak, but my blood ran cold at how easily he accessed ain After he left, I shoved a chair under the door handle, but it gave ht I had no idea what I was going to do if I came up with the money to pay the rent, because I didn’t feel safe at all

I’m just happy I still have a fewho he has a place to be for a little longer gives me some relief, but notintoand drop them down inside

Your naan, where you got a degree in liberal arts You are twenty-two years old and have always drea for a company like Foster and Crate, I remind myself for the hundredth tiet this job

I’h school because ofclue what Foster and Crate was until two days ago when I saw the job listing It’s a job that pays randfather in the pricey nursing home he’s in Not only that, but if I can keep the shaet us both health insurance in a few months’ time

This has to work I have no other options This isn’t merely about irl Ahe could until he started to forget who I was

I knew I couldn’t take care of him anymore He needed someone to be with him 24/7, and not only that, I was physically incapable of helping hi man, easily twice my size I could, however, ood to him So far, I had done that, but the place was far frootten fro in bills Waiting tables and cleaning jobs si it anymore