She might go crazy spending a week at her house. Still, the end result was that Hailey would be getting a surrogate sister. She supposed she could put up with the annoyance for the week.
“By the way, Hailey… your friends don’t need to know why Erin’s coming to live with us. You think you can keep that private?”
“Yeah, I won’t tell.”
“You’re a good girl, Hailey.”
Hailey was so excited for the rest of the evening that she’d all but forgotten to finish her earlier bowel movement until a few hours later. She found herself wishing again that she’d had the guts to just have an accident, but there was no way she could explain that to her parents, especially after how they’d treated her so much like an adult today. She couldn’t let them down like that.