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

had made a rule. Anything I paid for went directly to the institution, airline, hotel, or application portal. Nothing went through Megan. Nothing went through Paul. Not one dollar touched my sister’s hands.

Savannah did not argue.

“Honestly,” she told me over FaceTime one night, her hair twisted on top of her head with a pencil stuck through it, “I don’t continue reading …