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"The dark side" Dani had a sudden i her brother, hands on hips as she yelled at Bryant to stop picking on his sister

"It’s kinda hoe grew up thinking Learned later that our mom was ostracized when she left our dad We didn’t know, you know" He glanced over "We thought our dad was dead"

"And here I thought it was only my family that was screwed up"

"I think most families are messed up in some way Wouldn’t be a family if they weren’t" As her old house cahts? Is anyone ho to see her house clearer It was her house, but it wasn’t Half the house looked new, but it was still her horew up in "Jaketo Mae’s Grill The house should be empty"

"Do you have a key?"

"I knohere Julia hides the spare"

For all of the perfection Julia and Aunt Kathryn proclaihout their lives Dani could never figure out how they’d lose ‘eht it was hilarious, and whenever (the little it happened) she fought with Julia or Aunt Kathryn, the spare key gotat the side of her ot Erica had been funny at those times

She told Jonah to pull the car in the back and into a partial road that was hidden by a cluster of trees If anyone arrived hoht It had no way out except through the driveway, but that could be done without light

Making sure not to slam the doors shut--just in case--neither spoke nor whispered as they approached the darkened ho everywhere She wanted to see as still familiar to her, what had been there when she was

The broken swing still hung from the tree The treehouse still stood, but the bottom looked like it had fallen out And as they approached the back door, the sa a bunch of flower pots

Dani knelt and opened the frog’s ear The key was right inside

Dani took Jonah’s hand and pulled hiers slid between hers, and neither flipped a light switch The house sat on a hill and could be seen two lary And, knowing Jake, his job wouldn’t allow the possibility of a forgotten light But, she used this to their advantage and drew open the curtains The h for them toThe sugar--nothing Jonah was convinced it was in a baking container, so they broke apart He was digging in the coffee grounds when she ran her hands along a picture fra She went into Julia’s bedroom, but only did a cursory look over the dressers and bedstands Going back to the living room, she checked in a few books, anywhere that wouldn’t need to bethe picture around

Dani chewed on her lip, thinking

The piano was still in the corner, but no Julia hadn’t been fond of piano, even though she suffered through her lessons