My Family Auctioned Everything, So I Put My Life on the Block
The year my sister turned fifteen, my father, Grant Davis, became obsessed with holding auctions at home.
Everything in the house, from a plate of meat to a turn with the washing machine, from school lunch money to after-school activity fees, had to be won by bidding with family credits.
I worked odd jobs until I dropped, sleeping only three hours a night, and finally saved up a thick stack of family credits, the paper soft and warped from my sweat.
All Melody had to do was sit on the couch and shed a few tears, and my father would stuff fistfuls of credits into her arms.
"Girls deserve to be spoiled. Can't have Melody feeling left out."
That day, the item up for auction was an old necklace