My Daughter Begged Me Not to Get Off the Bus—Minutes Later, My Boyfriend Sent a Photo of My Deed Beside a Contract I Had Never Signed

“Can I go to school?”

“We’re going to make a plan.”

She accepted that more readily than I did.

I spent much of the night looking at the contract photograph.

Yellow tabs along the edges.

My kitchen underneath.

A passport opened to a page that should have stayed in a drawer.

At one point, I zoomed in on a corner and realized I was studying a mug I had left there that morning.