Neighborly Love by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Amy sat at the island of Brenda’s kitchen and stared at the toast in front of her. She wasn’t lost in thought as much as she was focusing on one single thought that wouldn’t stop echoing around her mind like a bell. I don’t know what to do. Meghan was in trouble and Amy didn’t know what to do. She barely had money to buy herself a new phone two months back, and she definitely didn’t have twenty thousand to give Meghan. There was nothing she could do for her.

“You need to stop worrying about things you can’t control,” Chelsea said as she set a mug full of milk coffee in front of Amy, before dropping down to the seat beside her. “I know you like your new girlfriend, but it was really unfair of her to go to you and dump her problems on you like that.”

“It wasn’t unfair,” Amy argued, shaking her head, even though at the time it had felt so—that Meghan had cornered her and demanded answers of her she couldn’t have had. “I’m glad she’s trusting me with her problems, you know. It’s just that it’s so outside of my scope. I mean, I don’t know how I would pay it if I were one thousand in debt, much less forty. But I do want to help her…”

“You’re saying yourself there’s no way for you to do it,” Chelsea argued, sipping her own coffee. “You need to focus on yourself, Amy, not her.”

“Well, you need to stop chit-chatting with my mom behind my back,” Amy muttered into her own cup.

Chelsea sent her a dirty look. “Should I just ignore her and walk away when I see her at the supermarket? I’m just saying, Amy, that if your girl every actually needed your help, you would have no way to do it because you have no independence! You have no money, no job, you don’t have your own place. The best thing you can do for both you and her is get some stability.”

Amy looked down at her toast again and didn’t say anything. She wished more than anything that when Meghan had come to her, she could have said something like here, I have it, take the money and forget about this, everything is going to be fine. But the world didn’t work like that.

“You know I won’t be able to leave my parents’ house even if I get a job,” Amy said softly after a moment of silence. “It’d be too expensive to rent somewhere close to them when I could just stay there, and none of us want me to move away.”

“If you work for some time and save the money, you’ll be able to pay rent anywhere,” Chelsea retorted. “Amy, you need to talk to your parents. Together, the three of you can come up with something. You can work something out. I’m not telling you to get a job and immediately move out and start throwing money down some landlord’s pocket, but… there’s options, you know.

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