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space and visitor spots, but since it was Saturday morning and

people were probably running errands, Dallas did find one free

parking spot. She walked down the parking lot towards

Quinn’s place. She figured that the whole complex was

probably built twenty or so years before.

It seemed like a nice complex, even if it was a little

industrial looking. People had tried to brighten up their little

porches with flowers and lawn ornaments on the tiny patches

of grass. Dallas wasn’t sure if Quinn owned the condo or if she

rented it. She wasn’t sure what the prices of real estate were

like in Topeka.

Dallas’ parents had to help her purchase her condo a

couple years back. They just co-signed the mortgage, but for

the first few years, they did help her with the mortgage

payments too. She was fresh out of college when she bought it.

She didn’t have many student loans because she’d worked her

butt off at part time jobs and her parents had some money

saved for school, but after she graduated, she was pretty broke.

They helped her with the place so she could stop throwing

money away on rent. Now that she had a good job, she was

fine, but without that boost from her parents, she’d probably

still be renting an apartment. That would have been fine, but

Dallas was glad to have the opportunity to have something that

was hers.

She had to admit that she had a full stomach of

butterflies before she even stepped onto the porch and rang the

bell. Quinn answered right away, and when she pulled open

the door and looked Dallas up and down, all she could do was

rock back on the heels of her flats and smile sheepishly.

“It’s basically the only thing I had left that was clean. I