Chapter 296

• I was brought up with the morals that money is something so vital that I will never have enough of, and that I will spend the rest of my life just hoping to get by on what I had. It's hard to go from that to being given cars for my birthday and openly encouraged to spend ridiculous amounts of money on whatever I wanted.
• "I thought that too, we really did have completely different lives" I smile up at him. At some points the cataclysmic differences of our lifeWhitlock was just so amusing; Rhode claiming to feel claustrophobic in my old bedroom, my decision to keep working my minimum wage job even though I had tens of thousands in cards and savings.
• "No we've just gotta figure out a middle ground" Rhode muses with a grin. "How about i promise not to buy you a new car this year, but next year I get to?" I give his shoulder a soft nudge with my hand as he laughs to himself. He has to hear how ridiculous that sounds to other people, but I know deep down that if I had said 'I want a new car', I'd walk downstairs the next morning to find one waiting for me with a bow on the hood.