Cancun, et., continued....
It helps to know that the killer isn't one of TA's PPL associates. She's connected to Chris H's accounts, not T's. One reading of that text exchange is that she is asking Travis for credit for spending time "helping" him meet quota, at the expense of meeting her own, even though he didn't ask her for assistance and didn't give her permission to access his accounts.
A less charitable reading is that whatever she did with his account under the guise of helping had actually jeopardized his ability to meet quota (among other risks), which is why he was scrambling the next day for one more sale by noon.
Whatever she did, for whatever reason (or whatever she told herself was the reason), the killer acknowledged in her journal that it had caused real problems with Travis. She calls the fight a "spat," but writes that she drove over to T's while they were still on the phone, arguing...by text (hmm) and that she knocked on his bedroom door, then flew in to breathlessly apologize to him
(though, she writes, he was the one being a jerk). Later, while on the stand, she testified that the resulting fight was significant, even intense.
And whatever she did, both she and Travis knew by mid-day the next day, March 31, that Travis had secured his perk of going to Cancun by meeting his ED quota for March.
I'm pretty sure the killer was convinced, however twisted her thoughts, that she was responsible for Travis making quota, and thus for his earning the Cancun trip. From the testimony of Ryan Burns, what she told him:
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Travis was her executive director. She helped him put in membership applications. She helped him qualify as Executive Director, and maintain that status.
EDs needed 75 memberships -if you had 73 @ end of month you would get director but not executive pay. Only ED’s were eligible for perks like the Cancun trips."
In her mind, IMO, she believed without her Travis wouldn't have been eligible to go at all. It was one thing to write in mid-March, while at the OKC convention, when Travis was still upbeat about Mimi-sometimes, that it was OK with her to imagine Travis escorting Mimi to the Executive Director banquet the next year. After all, she was going to be a PPL star herself, and earn her own way there within a year.
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