13 - Under, Or Over?

~Cadence’s Point of View~

I woke up Monday morning feeling completely out of sorts. I’d had an exhausting conversation with Valerie to get more details of this auction business so that I wouldn’t sound like a blithering idiot courting rich people.

I made the calls but only got to speak to two people, one of which was their football coach who was positively giddy that his star players were getting front page action in the paper. He insisted I meet up with him to get his picture with them added to the article and in exchange, I managed to convince him to also invite a few people to the auction.

No one pulls the wool over my eyes, I always come out on top. I always … win and get my way. But at the same time it is a give and take, both parties walk away happy. I just had no idea how I could translate that into my personal life. This new reality I had to navigate that said I was about to lose everything I worked tirelessly for all these years.

After my first class I went to the library