DADDY PAYS FOR COLLEGE EXPERIMENTS

“I'm disappointed in you.”

“Jesus!” I shout, my heart nearly leaping through my throat. “What are you doing here?”

My stepdad leans back in my computer chair, his brown eyes a pair of distant specks in my poorly lit dorm room. I had been meaning to get the overhead light fixed, but I've only been here a week and haven't had much time to get anything else done but orient myself.

If anything, it gives the room a hostel vibe: low rent, seedy, and dangerous.

Which makes daddy's sudden appearance in the dim light all the more frightening.

“I was expecting you to have sent...