My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

crept higher. Glasses clinked. Someone would shout over the music, and then someone else would shout back.

I would lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, listening to their joy vibrate through the walls. My alarm would ring at 6:30, and I’d still be awake.

The first time I came out to ask them to keep it down, I tried to be polite. I tried to be the reasonable continue reading …