The Price of Your Prank

Raised by relatives who found her too expensive to keep, Chloe has always feared being abandoned. Her husband Julian spent five years rebuilding her sense of security, promising that as long as he is there, she will always have a home. Then, on their fifth anniversary, she comes home to divorce papers, twenty-seven unanswered calls, and a family who has all blocked her.

The papers turn out to be a prank. Julian, her mother, her brother and her best friend Summer have staged it all as exposure therapy, betting on whom she would beg for help first. Summer calls her a needy stray; her family insists it is for her own good. Julian keeps smiling, certain a joke will be forgiven as before.

When Summer locks her in a dark storage room for hours, Chloe stops trembling and quietly asks a lawyer friend to draft a divorce agreement, ready to walk away from the people who turned her deepest fear into entertainment.