He Paid Rent to His Parents, but They Still Tried to Double It

had a bleach stain in one corner from the summer he’d tried to get a wine spill out of it.

He had made that apartment livable. Not luxurious. Livable.

That mattered to him in a way he had never quite explained to anyone, because it was the first place he had ever paid for with his own money and still felt like he could breathe inside.

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