Page 6 of Charming my Best Friend

She put a bite in her mouth and closed her lips.

“It sounds like you were so excited about getting that job this morning that you wanted to celebrate with a little bit of retail therapy, but you weren’t in the mood to spend your own money so you came up with an excuse to spend mine.”

“I’m sorry you feel that way.”

“Yeah, me too.”

Her face was so sullen it made me sick. How she could even pretend that she was the one that had been wronged in this situation?

“Too bad you spent that money on my sister. I was kind of saving up so I could get you something really expensive for your birthday,” I lied. “But hopefully now you’ll understand when I can’t do something more extravagant than take you to dinner.”

“You don’t have to worry about that,” she said. “You already got me something.”

“No I didn’t.”

“Yes you did. Because the cost of the silverware was so great, they gave me a discount on any piece of jewelry in the store.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing any more than I could move.

“So I got myself one of those “T” bracelets everyone’s wearing now.”

“You did, huh?”

She nodded.

“Well, happy birthday, honey.” Consider it a souvenir.

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