Before I Disappear Page #7

- Don't pay me.

- Take the money.

- I don't need the money.

- Take it.

I don't need the

money anymore, Maggie.

This is just between us.

This whole thing. Okay?

I'm gonna call out of work

for a couple of days.

Just do it from home.

It's work. It's fine.

You don't want anyone

seeing you like this.

You called me because you don't want

your friends seeing you like this?

I've a lot of people

depending on me. Unlike you.

There's a lot of money

on the line of what I do.

I walk into that office

with a black eye

with any scent of emotional

baggage, it's done.

Everything I worked for. Gone.

We come from different worlds.

I know exactly where we come from.

And I know that we

used to be friends.

We used to be close.

Well, we were young.

And we could make mistakes.

Yeah, but I mean, don't you

miss anything, you know?

- I miss what we had.

- Yeah, 'cause you got to be a teenager.

You got to do stuff that other

teenagers do. I had a kid.

I didn't have the luxury of hanging out

with friends from the neighborhood.

I didn't have the privilege

of making bad choices.

Look, this is just a...

This is just a onetime thing, Richie.

I don't want my daughter

having any more false idols.

Okay? So, please...

if you can just...

leave.

4th grade, PS 164.

Scottie Evans and Jimmy Knight,

they got to me.

Sometimes it was a black eye.

Sometimes they cut me.

Then one day, you come down there.

You remember?

You put your fist up

real high... and boom

you punched Scottie Evans

on his chin he goes down

like a ton of bricks.

I never seen anything like it.

They said, "You embarrassed

that your little sister

fight your battles for you?"

I didn't think so.

Just seeing you

standing there, you know?

"You don't mess with Richie,

you don't mess with my brother."

I knew the truth.

I had the coolest

sister in the world.

And then we...

we grow up.

We change.

I changed.

And you go and you have this...

this beautiful girl, Maggie

I mean, she's a one in a million.

She's so smart.

I know you don't get to be like that unless

your mother is the best of the best.

And then I realized that...

some things never change.

You're still the coolest

sister in the world.

Look.

Why don't you come over

for dinner on Friday.

Around 7? We'll talk.

But if you're late or you disappoint

Sophia I'm gonna kill you. Okay?

Okay.

Okay.

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