Terms of the Arrangement

~DARIUS~

They were waiting for me the second I got home.

Not a conversation. An ambush.

"You disappointed us," my mother said.

"You did the opposite of what we asked," my father added. "We sent Sabrina to the coast. You treated it like an inconvenience. You left early. You were seen looking unhappy. That is not the arrangement."

I set my bag down harder than I needed to. Sand still in the seams. C