"But I barely made ends meet with the last increase! What am I supposed to do? Find a second job? Take out another loan?"

"You're forgetting something," Tessa said as she sat down at the counter. "You can move out of your apartment. Right, Quinn?"

Nicole's smack to my head must have helped wake me up because I noticed how very still Quinn sat before answering.

"Sure," Quinn said finally. "It's not a problem."

"Really?" Nicole said. "You sure it'll be okay?"

"Don't worry about it. It's not a problem," Quinn said, not looking up from her paper.

"Oh, thank you! You have no idea how big a help this...