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meant that you couldn’t pay and if you couldn’t pay, then you were
useless to her.
    I made my way over
to her slowly, dreading the conversation with each step that I took closer and
closer to her. I learned from the past it was best to start talking before she
had a chance to, once she got going it was hard to shut her up.
    “Jessica!” I said
with a huge fake smile plastered on my face. “I was just telling my mom how I
was going to be looking for you today! I needed to talk to you about the rent
I-“
    “Mm-hmm,” she
said, cutting me off. “If I were you I would have a lot more to talk about then
your rent, young lady. I have a bone to pick with you.”
    “I know,” I told
her, taking a deep breath. “The thing is that mom got paid late this month and
it threw all of our bills out of whack making it hard to know what was do
when.”
    She smiled that
big smile I only saw on the rare occasion we paid on time and waved me off.
“Oh, child, please. I could care less about all that nonsense. I have all my
money now plus next month's rent! All is well that ends well!”
    I tried to pull my
mouth up off the ground after I processed what she had just said. How was that
possible? My mom wouldn’t even get paid until next Thursday, and there was no
way that one of her checks would cover three months rent, it couldn’t even
cover one.
    “No, that’s not
the bone I have to pick with you! Child, where on earth have you been hiding
that fine young man? I didn’t even know you had a boyfriend, let alone one that
handsome.”
    “Excuse me?” I
asked her, even though somewhere deep down I knew exactly who she was talking
about.
    “Oh, don’t act
modestly on my benefit, dear. I may be old but I’m not blind and that young man
is very handsome and so polite, too. Told me to contact him directly if your
rent check is even a day late again and he would personally make sure it was
taken care of. Such a gentleman that one.”
    Oh, he sure was a
gentleman. That was one way of putting it.
    I couldn’t believe
the nerve of him getting involved in my family business like that. What the hell
was the matter with him? What did he think I needed his charity or something?
We were perfectly capable of getting by on our own. We weren’t anyone’s charity
case.
    “What was his name
again?” Jessica was asking now. “I have it written down somewhere… Thomas? Or
was it Todd?”
    “Trigger,” I
offered up helplessly.
    “That’s it!
Trigger! You hang on to that one girl!” She shook her head back and forth.
“What a looker! Well if I was a little younger…” She trailed off and winked at
me.
    I forced a smile
between clenched teeth. “Yes, well, speaking of Trigger I think its time a pay
him a little visit. Drop these off in front of my mom’s door, will you? I’ll
text her and tell her to come on out and grab them.”
    “Oh, of course,
Jennifer.” She grabbed the bag of groceries out of my hand and started to move
her big body faster up the steps then I had ever seen her move before. “You
tell that Trigger hello for me!”
    Oh, I would tell
him all right.
    Everyone knew
where Trigger’s townhouse was. It was literally a block outside of the city but
nicer than any of the places around our neighborhood within a ten-mile radius.
Everyone talked about it or made a point to walk by it. It was kind of sad
actually; the way people lived through him and his brothers. Most people in our
city could only dream of living in a place that nice, working their whole lives
to live in a place like that. And here he was, only 18 and he already had it.
No wonder so many people were jealous of him. If I was being honest being this
close to it made me kind of jealous, too.
    I had been so
confident and sure on the long walk over there, but once that I was face to
face with Trigger’s perfect townhouse I hadn’t been feeling so sure as before.
What was I supposed to say? How dare you do something nice for my family and
me? It wasn’t