Misfortune

Piper stared at those notes unable to tear her eyes away. She stood up, and looked at Bethany, but Bethany put up a hand.

"Chill." She said, and dropped another bundle from her bag onto the table.

Piper gulped. "Sit. I can't speak to you this way." She said sipping from her mug once more.

Piper exhaled, thinking fast, and sat down, trying to take away her gaze from the money.

"Miss Bethany…" Piper started to say but Bethany tapped the bundles of money directing her attention to it once more.

"You should think twice, and pick sides. Ivy cannot provide this amount of money.

"This is twenty thousand dollars. You know, this is not what you or Ivy come by easily, and I'm giving it to you.." She said, and Piper stared at the money with a million thoughts on her mind.

"Twenty thousand dollars?" She asked.

"Do you want to count it?" Bethany asked, and Piper reached out slowly for the money.

She knew she wasn't supposed to, but she couldn't help it. She needed the money.

She counted it slo