I opened the ledger tab and set the filter to the past six months.

Every entry showed up in neat, chronological rows of dark gray numbers.

On May fifteenth, three hundred eighty dollars went to the auto finance company.

On June fifteenth, three hundred eighty dollars went out again.

July, August, September, and October were exactly the same.

Six straight payments, cleared and settled, totaling two thousand two hundred eighty dollars from my own hard work.

Three months ago, my mother-in-law had told Ethan that the Toyota SUV was family property because his name was on the original title.