They Canceled My Ticket I Canceled Them Chapter 29
After the apartment sale went through, I received my share of the proceeds.
My lawyer asked, “Shall I transfer the funds to your account in Paris?”
“Set a portion of it aside.”
I sent him a proposal.
It was for Northstar’s new design internship program, aimed at young people from the foster care system with no family support.
When I entered the Reed household at fourteen, the unfamiliar room wasn’t what scared me most.
It was the fear that if I wasn’t good enough, obedient enough, I would lose my home all over again.
That fear stayed with me for years.
It made me treat every demand from Daniel and Tyler as a test of my worth. It made me mistake Marcus’s control for care.
Now, I no longer needed to prove I was worth keeping.
“Use this money to fund the housing stipend for the first year,” I instructed.
My lawyer paused.
“Should the program be named after you?”
“No.”
I closed the file.
“Just make the rules clear. Application requirements, review dates, stipend amounts—tell them everything, directly.”
On the day the program opened for applications, Northstar received dozens of emails.
One of them was from a girl who had just aged out of the foster system.
At the end of her message, she asked: *If I don’t get in the first time, can I know why?*