She sat down on the edge of her bed with her back to the door and pulled her knees up to her chest.

I stood in the doorway a while longer, but she didn’t turn around or say anything more.

I stepped out into the hall and pulled her door nearly closed, leaving only a thin line of light across the carpet.

I leaned back against the wall and opened the banking app on my phone.

The balances came up under the hall light in plain black numbers.

Savings balance: twenty-eight dollars even.