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Gabe: I did, how does it feel to be eighteen? Ready to take over the world?
Ameline: I don’t have that on my to-do list for today. I still feel the same as I did last night. No, wait. I feel like I’ve been robbed of my present.
Gabe: What does that mean?
Ameline: At eighteen, Dad gave Isadora and Cedric a brand new car. It’s supposed to be the only car they will ever get from him. Instead of that, I got a hand-me-down from the stepmother.
Gabe: Why?
Ameline: She deserved a new car, not me—her words. So, she got my birthday present.
Gabe: That’s fucked up.
Ameline: We share the same sentiment.
Gabe: How are you going to celebrate?
Ameline: I’m not sure because she feels like going on a ride along I-5 to test drive and enjoy her new car.
Gabe: You want me to pick you up?
Ameline: You’ll come for me all the way to Bainbridge Island?
Gabe: Of course. You deserve to celebrate your birthday with style, not in your house while someone else enjoys your present.
Ameline: It’s okay. I have homework and a test.
Gabe: We can do something over the weekend.
Ameline: Dad is going to be here.
Gabe: Unless you convince them to take a road trip to California. Then your brother will have to be in charge of you, and you can come to stay with us.
Ameline: How am I supposed to convince them to do that?
Gabe: :shrug: emoji
Ameline:That’s not helpful.
Gabe: I can be helpful. Let me figure it out, while I hire someone to key the new car while they’re on their road trip.
Ameline: Don’t be mean.
Gabe: She deserves that . . . but maybe I’ll do something better. Spectacular. :wink: emoji
Ameline: Should I be scared?
Gabe: Nope. You’ll be fine. Trust me.
Chapter Nine
Ameline
“It’s not that bad,” Cedric remarks, eyeing the RAV4 I just inherited from Helen.
Woohoo, happy birthday to me, I say to myself for the thousandth time since Dad gave me this incredible surprise.
“I wouldn’t complain if she had given me the Mercedes, you know. It’s used, but at least it’s from this century. This car . . .” I trail my voice looking at it again and trying not to be so fucking annoyed. “Where did she get it? I’ve never seen it before, but she insists it’s hers.”
