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"My mom said it’s okay with her if it’s okay with you," Brooklyn added Man ere getting good with the lying

"Science fair, huh?" Grandma said as she hurried to clean the kitchen before they set out for a wild night of legalized gauess if it’s for science Just be home before dark"

Grandpa winked at me behind her back and whispered, "She’s so easy"

I had to agree My grandmother would let me rob a bank if it was in the name of science

"I’ve alanted a peek inside this house" Brooklyn bounced in the front seat of Glitch’s car, giddy with excitement

Glitch looked at erie of ponderosa pine and alligator juniper "So, no one has lived there since the Davises?"

"According to randma After Elliot Davis died, his parents closed up their business, boarded up their house, threw the kids in the car, andI think Mr Davis was a freshman at the time"

"I wonder if they still own it," Brooklyn said

"I e knew," I agreed before explaining er than randma, but she remembers him, remembers what happened She said the Davises were devastated It broke her heart"

As much as we’d found out about the Davises and the incident, we still had nothing to tie Jared to Elliot Davis’s death We’d asked ht know so that wasn’t in the papers I was surprised at how much she remembered, but just as the paper reported, it was asuspicious

"If they do own it, ouldn’t Mr Davis have moved into it when he came back?" Glitch asked "It just seems odd"

Mr Davis had moved back to take the principal job when it opened up a few years ago Apparently, the whole toas surprised when he moved back

"Grandpa said it’s in shambles now and would cost more to repair than it would to just tear it down and start over"

Brooklyn turned and peered around the passenger’s seat at ed "Just a hunch It’s a straight shot from where Jared jumped out of Cameron’s truck to here And it’s abandoned What better place to take refuge?"

"That’s true, I guess If I were seeking refuge, I’d want to hole up in a cool oldback to Jared, to everything we’d learned so far "The first guy I’ve ever really liked, and he could be soive up"

"Give up on boys?" Brooklyn said "That’ll be the day"