Abby, Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 17
Ms Baxter had waited for us. Everyone else in the Admissions Office was gone ... long weekend ... they probably left at noon. Nothing quite like an early start. Any travel could be done before dark.
“Can you write cheques?” Ms Baxter asked.
“It’s my company ... I needed daddy while I was a minor. I don’t know where he’s gone for the weekend,” I said. Truth be known ... I had no idea where he’d been for the week ... With Jim Mac for sure.
I would think with the mine he’d quit looking ... I guess it’s a hobby now.
Ms Baxter explained how much and why it was ‘so expensive.’ “It’s not so much the tuition as it is the Pre testing. Every final exam has to be paid for as if you were actually taking the class. Alice Li has applied for testing to eliminate First and Second year undergraduate class work.”
Alice said, “I’d test out of Third Year if you would let me.”
“Sorry Alice ... first and second only.” She turned to me, “Forty five thousand nine hundred. Living at home.”
I whipped out my Parker Ink Pen and scrawled my signature on a cheque for $45,900 ... tore it out of the ledger and handed it to Ms Baxter.
“Just like that?”
“She might not have my DNA ... but she’s my sister.”
To read the complete story you need to be logged in:
Log In or
Register for a Free account
(Why register?)
* Allows you 3 stories to read in 24 hours.