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

and gave her a small envelope “for emergencies, coffee, or emotional damage.”

The boys hugged her legs.

Then Savannah turned to me.

Everyone seemed to look somewhere else.

That kindness nearly undid me.

She hugged me tight.

“Don’t cry,” she whispered.

“You first.”

“I already did on the balcony.”

“Then I get a turn.”

She laughed into my shoulder.

I pulled back continue reading …