My Parents Called Me At 2 A.M. On Christmas Eve Screaming For $20,000 … – Page 7

say Merry Christmas. Maybe they realized they had been harsh earlier in the week. Maybe something was actually wrong.

I slid my thumb across the screen.

“Hello.”

I didn’t even get the word out fully.

“Joshua. Oh my God. Joshua, pick up. Are you there? Tell me you’re there.”

It was my mother, Nancy. But she wasn’t crying. She was screaming. It was that high-pitched,continue reading …