All Chapters of Living on Rigged Scratch Cards: Chapter 11

There was also a letter from Mom at the very bottom of the box.She said that she'd thought a lot during this time, and for the first time ever, she seriously calculated how much the food in the school cafeteria would cost per week.She also said that she went to the cafeteria and bought a plain waffle and drank from the free tap water as I always did, and she immediately gave up after the second meal.She apologized to me.She stopped mentioning that her prior strictness had been for my own good in this letter. She also didn't ask me to come home. Her last paragraph in the letter simply said, "I'm not asking you to forgive us, but we will slowly make it up to you for all the living expenses we never gave you back then. That's not a favor. It's a responsibility that we should have shouldered a long time ago."I put the letter back inside the box.Mr. Meyer asked, "Do you want to see her?"I looked outside the office and saw Mom standing under the tree outside the building. It ha