I ran through the list of stuff I needed to do to close out the human portion of my life as I drove back to town from the trailhead. I didn’t like that Grandpa called his accountant and told him to transfer a tidy sum to me, but given the lack of regular payment with my old job, it was unfortunately not the first time he’d done that. A part of me rankled a bit at the idea of not giving my employer the standard two weeks’ notice, but that part couldn’t gain too much traction.
The largest unknown on my mind was my apartment’s lease. Even though they’d never said or done anything to make me feel unwelcome, I guess I’d always known there was something that set me apart from my grandparents and Vicki. And I reacted to that by getting my own place when I started the tech support job.
I looked
