•Peace•

•Chapter Twenty-Two•

"It wasn't too bad, May. Thanks." I smiled back.

She shook her head and hummed. "You make it sound like it was miserable but you're being polite."

"It wasn't miserable." I laughed. "I slept well." I insisted.

"Alright alright. I'll take it."

May pulled out a box from under the counter. "Here is today's annual stocking box."

I leaned over to peek at the label. "Ooh Jane Austen! Jason would be excited."

May raised an eyebrow with a sly smile. "He would now? You two seem to be getting close." She nudges me.

I shook my head. "No, he was telling me about his Jane Austen collection a while ago.. I only meant.."

May cut me off. "I know I know. I was only teasing. You are oblivious."

"Okay." I sighed exasperatedly.

The door opened and in walked Bella, wearing some sort of fancy white leather jacket and red sun dress underneath.

"Good morning May!" She greeted, setting her purse on the counter.

You bet I noticed her disgusted expression when she looked at my cookies.

I'm gonna punch her if she says one thing about them.

Luckily for her, she didn't. In fact, she seemed to ignore me completely.

I decided it was my lucky day to not have to worry about her slightly degrading comments. Besides.. maybe she didn't even realize what she.. implies is rude. Maybe I'm taking it too seriously.

But after yesterday I just would prefer not to seek conflict.

What happened yesterday you may ask?

Well when I got back with Jason, we sat down together at a table and went over phone details, and he got me on his dad's cellular data service. (Which has been scarily amazing)
And he helped me finally download my banking app.

And the question you were all wondering: did my dad dump money on me behind my back?

Drum roll please.........

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Yes. Yes he did.

Not a lot, I'll be honest, he probably knew I'd be mad and cause hurricane Percy, so he only gave me 50k Which was still a ton! But I knew he was probably hoping to give me a lot more.

I'll accept this money as a late child support payment.. and I'll give mom half of it too.

And also because I honestly don't know how to give it back.

Luckily Jason didn't get a glimpse of my bank balance.

Anyways, back to the topic of what drama occurred.. Bella has been watching us closely, and I tried not to mind it, but when Jason eventually left shortly after getting me all set up, she cornered me while I was shelving discarded books and demanded to know what exactly Jason and I did that took so long.