Chapter 33
Hard Lessons
Sophia settled into the spare room next door to Ellen and Bob’s, smiling each time she stepped on the creaky-board-of-warning which heralded her arrival or departure. She accepted Ellen’s house rules in exchange for a safe place to live and tried not to think about her father. Dane still refused to give her phone back.
“What’s the problem?” she complained as he drove them home in his car after school. “Why can’t I have it?”
“I need it. You can have mine.”
“Yours is crap, Dane! It doesn’t get emails or anything remotely digital! And there’s no data. I used the last little bit last week.”
“Rude!” Dane exclaimed. “It sometimes takes calls and it texts fine. I can’t get more data until I get my wages next week.”
“Just give my phone back,” Sophia grumbled.
“I can
