"Never mind that!" Look at Kathy try to weasel her way out of answering that without lying or feeling like an idiot. "I'll have to file taxes! Which means that my parents would find out. I'm a dependent! I can't make a hundred thousand dollars a year as a dependent!"
Being approached to keep a super-genius from becoming a criminal mastermind? Totally fine and normal. Being told she'd be making six figures before her seventeenth birthday? Mental BSOD.
"A trust fund," she finally decided. "I'll get paid a few hundred a month and tell my parents I got a part time job tutoring or something. The rest can all go into some kind of trust fund or something. That should work, won't it?"
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"Never mind that!" Look at Kathy try to weasel her way out of answering that without lying or feeling like an idiot. "I'll have to file taxes! Which means that my parents would find out. I'm a dependent! I can't make a hundred thousand dollars a year as a dependent!"
Being approached to keep a super-genius from becoming a criminal mastermind? Totally fine and normal. Being told she'd be making six figures before her seventeenth birthday? Mental BSOD.
"A trust fund," she finally decided. "I'll get paid a few hundred a month and tell my parents I got a part time job tutoring or something. The rest can all go into some kind of trust fund or something. That should work, won't it?"
HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO YOUR TAXES, BARRY?