Their plan

Sacramento...

At 2 pm, Maelie was still struggling with the twins who refused to take a nap. They were happily playing in the living room with their cousin who was actually in their teens. They were a boy and a girl named Elsa and Dante, all of them at home because it was still the weekend.

"Mae, you can go to sleep. Let them stay with us," Elsa, who looked pretty and slender with slightly wavy blonde hair, said.

Maelie quickly got up from the sofa after almost an hour of lying there, playing with her phone.

"Okay, please watch over them. I'll go see Amanda," she said, then went to find Amanda in her room.

...

Amanda was still busy watching a video on her laptop, showing a woman explaining how to become a content creator. She had a small notebook, occasionally jotting down what the woman mentioned as tools for becoming a content creator.

"Hey."

Her attention shifted to Maelie, who entered her cramped room with only a bed, a wardrobe, a vanity table, one window, and no bathroom, so the