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Chapter One

Renos

The presents under the dihts beneath theer across the shi out onto the area rug There was nothing but a huge S on the tag No naers across the S and realized it felt wet

When I lifted ers, they were red The S turned to blood and ran down the tag,a puddle on the wooden floor

"Shit!" I panicked, looking around for so

That really is the proble a mom, you can’t switch off the need to mop up spills, even in a dream where presents bleed onto your floor All you really see is another fking mess to clean up That would be why I wake up tiredin e addiction to caffeine had to be at least half the reason I was so tired I wasn’t even human until my second cup of coffee

But as the drea nauseated,

My blurry eyes burned when I opened theain immediately

The crick in my back orse Great My to-do list started to rifle through e, or at least a chiropractor, into

Jules’ seventh birthday had passed, of course, but the party was still planned for Saturday I needed to pick up the cake and a Monster High doll for each girl attending Yeah, I was going to be the rich h, instead of a shitty, little goodie bag Let the snootythe ante on that one

Ha, bitches!

I went to fluffthe bed but then I realized it was the floor

I’d fallen out of bed again?

Another restless night?

I opened ?

I looked around, "How the hell?" The attic was closed up co up there, justchair in the corner next to all the crap I still had to sort through Most of it was from James’ ‘escapehim, he’d be like theback

Fucker Skeezy fker

I sighed and sat up, but my head spun

"Shit"

I shookin the attic alone I hadn’t crawled up there I hadn’t closedyet I looked around the roo I had been put up there

How had they done it?

I s I had all the side effects of a drugging--funny ue, stoer atteet to me My old spy body tried frantically to make me aware of my situation

I looked at the hatch, it was closed If I’d been sleepwalking, which I hadn’t done since I was nine, I wouldn’t have been able to close the hatch

No, someone had put me up there

I scrambled to the hatch and started to pound on it, "Mitch! Jules! Mo in inable started to fill my head What if they had ht streah the cracks

Was the house on fire? I sniffed the s a little It was real It was all real

"MOM!"