"Because he's my father," Kathy said, like that explained everything. "I don't want him to be mad at me over something so stupid as money. Not that money's stupid, but...oh, you know what I mean. I think I'm going to ask Barry to just put it all into a trust for me until I'm older so it's not even an issue."

Because peace at home was worth not having access to most of whatever money she made, it really was.

"Ooooh, you didn't know? Yeah, they started going out soon after that birthday party he threw for her. He's got it bad." In fact, he loooooooooved her, but Kathy wasn't going to breathe a word of that to anyone. She'd promised. "So...not very long after our...movie?" Date? Movie-date? Thing?

She'd never been quite sure how to quantify it.