Done in Fifteen Years novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Fifteen
We watched the 14:01 clip over and over.
Then my lawyer in Uvalde watched it on her own computer, with her glasses on, while I waited on the phone.
"Don't show this to a soul," she said. "Not the town page. Not Lone Pine. Not your daughter's followers."
"Why not?"
"Because if Doreen knows what you've got, she has two months to get a story ready. You walk into that courtroom on September 8 with it in your pocket."
So I put the little silver drive in my mama's recipe box, under the chess pie card.
And I made us all keep our mouths shut for five weeks.
It nearly killed Macey.
It nearly killed Vernie worse.
By the middle of August the TAX can had been emptied into Vernie's bank twice and the deposit slips were taped up behind the register.
$29,412.
Macey had drawn a thermometer on the back of a menu and colored it in red up to the line.
On Saturday, August 15, she turned fifteen.
We closed at two for it.
Vernie hung paper streamers from the rafters of the dance hall that had been in a box since the 1980s and smelled like it.
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