Every time my wealthy sister “forgot” her wallet, I told myself it wasn’t worth making a scene. Then one dinner, I paid the bill like always, reached into my purse, and handed her something I’d been quietly keeping for years. Suddenly, she had no excuse left to hide behind.
The waiter hadn’t even set the leather check presenter on the table before my sister reached for her designer handbag.
Right on schedule.
I watched her manicured fingers disappear inside the buttery white leather bag she’d spent the first 20 minutes of dinner telling me she’d bought in Milan.
A second later, she froze.
“Oh, no.”
There it was, the performance.
She searched one pocket.
Then another.
She frowned dramatically before checking her coat, even though she’d never once put her wallet in a coat pocket.
“Oh gosh, Diana.”
She looked up with those wide, innocent eyes she’d perfected decades ago.
“I did it again. I left my wallet at home.”
Of course you did.
The waiter shifted awkwardly beside the table, pretending not to listen.
Cassie gave him an apologetic smile.
“I’m so embarrassed.”
She wasn’t.
Not even a little.
She’d ordered the dry-aged ribeye, two craft cocktails, and a lobster mac and cheese to “share,” though she’d eaten almost all of it herself.
Then she’d insisted we couldn’t leave without trying the restaurant’s famous chocolate soufflé.
I’d ordered a house salad and iced tea.
The total sat neatly printed at the bottom of the check.
$312.45
Cassie leaned closer. “You can grab this one, right?”
Not, “Would you mind?”
Not, “Can we split it?”
Just the quiet confidence of someone asking the sun to rise tomorrow.
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