Loyalty Card

the long version

Birdie has been alone most of her life. Even before her mother took off for Chicago, Birdie’s been in the one in charge of her household. She has her own small apartment and a decent job doing the books for her one friend, ol’ Mr. Higgins. She doesn’t need anything else—particularly not a man who steals her phone and then her tampons just because she can’t locate her grocery store loyalty card.After his parents were killed in a freak car accident, Nick moves his grandmother to a small town in so