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"This is a little inti," I admitted The various conversations were collectively so loud that I wasn't sure how anyone could hear the person standing beside the out back in the pool, and there see on a bed On top of all of that, Frank Sinatra was crooning from a stereo somewhere that I hadn't spotted yet

"Alright, coet you so an ar me away from Luca

I really should have knohat he was doing

But I blindly followed hih

the house, ainst a golden push plate on the swinging door, pushing it open, and ushering me into the kitchen

"You said cal accusatory eyes up at him

There was nothing calm about this place

The kitchen

The heart of the home

This was pure and utter chaos

Controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless

No fewer than eight woathering iteerator

The space itself had unexpectedly high ceilings with one hts The color was a bright and cheery shade of yelloith all white accents There wereoff the handle of the stove, off of one of the cabinet pulls, and out of the waistbands of several of the women

Six of the eight were athered in the front or in the pool out back Tere younger, around e, possibly—due to the rese black hair tied up, big hoops on their ears

"Ey yo, Ma," Lucky called,to retreat back to the front of the house, back to Luca