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"Go on ahead and wash up I’ll get the glasses filled with ice, then I’ll go see if your dad is ready to eat," she said, still s to see just like mine

"Yeah, okay," I replied I didn’t have it in me to say much else I headed for the stairs then stopped I needed her to know that she wasn’t alone That when this was over, she would have ile flower that Dad protected But over the past year I had found out that she was made of steel She never once cracked in front of Dad no ht there beside him while I wanted to curl up and weep like a baby

I turned around to face her "I love you, Mo her to knoas in this with her She wasn’t alone When Dad was gone, I wouldn’t let her be alone

Her eyes filled with tears I knew she wouldn’t shed Then she nodded "I love you too, baby"

That was enough for noasn’t ready to cry Not in front of her And I didn’t think I could handle seeing her tears either

Stay Out of My World

CHAPTER 5

MAGGIE

I sat on ht Brady had invited several guys over to watch game tapes--whatever that o down and watch with the that to Brady

Instead I was sitting here and watching to see if West would co, that look in his eyes he tried so hard to disguise had been nagging at me I wanted to despise him, or even just be indifferent to hihts

I’d been so sure he was a monster after his perforainst the wall and take a pair of glasses frorader It had been so quick that if I hadn’t been studying him, I would have missed it Cruel, heartless people didn’t do that They didn’t stand up for the weak West was one big contradiction