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Anne would be lying if she said that time passed by quickly as she knocked off items from her various to-do lists.
Deposit the remainder of her college fund into her checking account that her father could not touch. Deposit the check that Aunt Cassandra had given her to help her out.
Pack up the list of books Elizabeth wanted to be shipped to Florida. Books Anne was well aware that Elizabeth would not actually be reading and was for decorative purposes only.
“Why can’t you just sell some of these?” Anne mumbled to herself as she packed away a hardback copy of Great Expectations. Elizabeth had never read that book; she’d dropped the class before they had even gotten around to that assigned reading.
Although she silently admitted, the campus bookstore didn’t sell the hardback copies to their students. Shaking her head, she chalked it up to one more way that Elizabeth tried to show she was better than the others around her.
“Let’s see how well you do without your personal trainer,” she grumbled as she tackled the next item on her list: packing up and shipping out Elizabeth’s clothes that had been – surprisingly – listed and sold on eBay.
But at the same time, slowly taking the clothes out of Elizabeth’s closet was one small victory that she savored. “This would have gone much quicker if we could have had a yard sale,” she told the empty room. “Although that would have netted a lot less money.”
Hours later found Anne on her computer filling out student loan information. “FAFSA, right,” she grumbled as she input vital piece of information after vital piece of information in hopes that she would be approved.
“I might have to find a job anyway,” she whispered to herself.
With that thought, she added one more thing to her to-do list.
