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Then I remembered what happened and looked over at Jack’s arm, which was bare thanks to his return to his tee shirt uniform (He wore one today that read "Frankie Says Relax")

I leaned in closer to inspect both his ar one But neither one of them had a scratch or aand immediately chastised me "No Don’t even think about it"

"What?" I leaned back inhow youbite so quickly?"

"Precisely Don’t ask any questions about anything like that, not about me, not about anyone else," Jack warnedshould come as a shock, but I still looked at hiet any weirder, they did

"I want you to meet them, but you can’t be like this You have to act co firet it" I rolledpast us out the"Where do you live anyway?"

"In St Louis Park, by a lake," he said "It’s not that far"

I didn’t know tons about that area, but what I had heard is that there were lots of nice, expensive homes So it woulddown the highway in a bright red Lahini

"Don’t worry," he attempted to reassure me "They’ll like you I think Well, Ezra isn’t there So it’s just Mae and Peter That shouldone of his brothers would be gone made me more nervous Maybe Jack knew Ezra wouldn’t likeed "He’s gone a lot with stuff"

"Well, the Lauess that’s true" He looked over atI had started chewing onto quit "Seriously, you’ll be fine They’ll like you I mean, I like you so… they’ll like you"

"Yeah, cause everything in life is really that siht actually be," he s down, and he turned off the road,closer, and my heart thudded painfully When he pulled up to his house, I cringed

Incredibly, beautiful and massive, it was more of a e at the end of a short, winding driveway The whole place had been done in soht into a rounded tower There was a large rectangularabove it, covered in rod-iron bars The tower flowed into ould otherwise be a rather conventional square house, if not for the gorgeous black iron balcony co