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Chapter 87: LIVE AND LEARN by Emma Knox

Everybody loves Addison, including me. But right now, I’m questioning her fashion advice.

Yesterday we went to the thrift shop, and I got a $10 grab bag. Whatever I’m wearing was in it, and Addison said it’d make a nice outfit.

She posed me for this picture and used my iPhone to take it. I asked where I was supposed to wear this, and she said anywhere. I’m not sure about that, but I kinda like the sweater part.

This isn’t even what I wanted to post about, so I’ll get on to that.

Me and Noah were sitting around talking about life and everything. Now, we’re the youngest of everyone living at Crossroads. I just turned 21 and he’s 23.

We’re also about the poorest when it comes to money. He’s an EMT. He’s advanced, but he don’t make a lot of money. I work part-time at a church and go to school.

Now we’re not jealous of the others, but we see that they all have good-paying jobs and are building up careers. Liza come from a hard life like me in a lot of ways, but she got into college and is an intern now with a good engineering future ahead of her.

Hannah and Merritt had some big discussions this week about ten years from now being partners. Can you believe that?

So, me and Noah got a plan. We’re going to see about getting Hannah and Merritt to break up. Noah gets to marry Hannah and I go back and work things out with Merritt! Planning for the future, right?

That was a joke. We didn’t even say that, but… ahem… Addison did. She was joking, too.

The thing is Noah and me understand we got to keep improving. He’s going to start taking classes next term to start on his paramedic license. Maybe become an RN after that. Maybe—who knows—after that…

Ten years.

I’m gonna work real hard in school and see if I can become a social worker like Izzy. It won’t be rich work, but it will be good and steady.

Ten years will pass whether or not we take classes. If we take them now, in ten years we’ll have them to call our own.

In the meantime, me and Noah are just hoping Pay It Forward Society stays around and keeps paying our rent.

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