Twelve Hundred

There is one thing she did not tell Milan, and which she had not mentioned either when she did the sum of the eleven pages.

It is not a lie. It is an omission, and the difference is exactly the one she herself would refuse to allow anybody else.

On the fourteenth of March 2019, she withdrew twelve hundred euros from the account.

Braces. The quote was two thousand four hundred euros: half from the health insurer, a quarter from his father, who paid in June. She took the difference from the account because the orthodontist had to be paid before fitting and she did not have the sum.