My Brother's Crazy Girlfriend Wanted Us Out

Before my brother, Noah Spears, brought his girlfriend home, he made a point of warning me.

"Stacey, don't call me 'big brother' anymore. Your sister-in-law will get jealous."

I was stunned. I was his own flesh-and-blood sister. What did she have to be jealous of?

But I didn't say anything. I let it go.

After all, my brother was thirty years old and had only just found a girlfriend to bring home. That was no small thing.

That day, to show how sincere we were, my mother, May Spears, made a point of preparing an envelope with twelve thousand dollars in cash.