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The accident.
This money is for me.
You forgot about me.
You don’t know shit.
My eyes blur as I stare at the computer screen.
This entire time, he didn’t forget Pippa. At least not entirely. He was keeping money aside for me.
With interest. We’re even now.
I look through the transactions to see that the account was opened almost ten years ago.
Ten years ago was the last time I saw him. He opened it a month after he left. It shows a deposit of only twenty-four dollars.
I open the next one, and there’s no activity other than a deposit of five dollars this time.
The next month shows the same thing. It’s pretty much small deposits every few months. A few dollars here and there.
I keep going. Over the next year and a half, slowly the amount increases.
From five to ten dollars a month to twenty…by the time four more years pass, the amount is now over three hundred until a lump sum was deposited.
A grand total of thirty-six thousand was placed in the account.
I furrow my brow. Why did he deposit so much? I squint my eyes, and then something hits me. That was the year Aiden would have graduated from college.
I google my question: What year did Aiden Slate get drafted to the Redville Saints?
As I suspected, the dates match.
From there on out, every month like clockwork, he deposits five hundred a month. Five hundred dollars every single month to come to a grand total of sixty thousand dollars. The last deposit was only weeks ago.
I had told him to pay me back with interest, and he remembered.
He kept his word.
Even if he didn’t know where to send the money or how it would get to me.
Liquid wells in my eyes, the words on the computer screen becoming blurry with unshed tears.
He never forgot me.
Aiden never forgot me.
Almost every month of every year since he left, he’s been paying back my investment.
I should’ve told him the truth.
Should’ve trusted that our bond was too strong to be that easily forgotten.
I’ve ruined everything.
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AIDEN
