My 14Year Old Daughter Baked 40 Apple Pies for the Local Nursing Home.. I Started Shaking When 2-Armed Officers Knocked on My Door

« You already planned this? »

I could hear the rest coming.

Lila folded her arms. « It makes people feel remembered. »

I stared at her. « Forty pies? »

« Thirty-eight, » she said. « But 40 sounds better. »

She brightened. « I checked the store app. If we buy the cheap flour and the apples on sale, and if I use my babysitting money-« 

I cut in. « You already planned this? »

I held out for about three seconds.

« Maybe. »

I sighed. « We don’t have enough pie tins. »