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“Yeah, Mom?” Lizzie yelled from somewhere inside the house

“Mr Sanchez is here With Mariana For dinner” Cameron turned back to them

“I’m sorry, Alex Come on in”

Now that he was ninety-nine percent sure Ca over, he leaned down so his et ho lady”

He stepped into Cameron’s house and shut the door behind hi room with comfortable furniture that faced a fireplace Clothes littered the room like a laundry parade

Yep Ca co to escape this situation without e anybody?

“Mariana!” Lizzie appeared beside her hter threw her arirls hurried out of the room before he could stop them

He shoved his hands in his pockets Right now, he wanted to be anywhere but here

A huge, white dog ambled into the room, sniffed at his shoes, and then meandered over to the kitchen doorway and laid down

“That’s Booive rabbed clothes off the floor, and flung them into a basket that she furiously shoved into a closet on the back wall The door started to fall open and she leaned her back against it and rahed when the latch finally clicked

“No allergies here” The best thing to do would be to ignore everything that had happened since he’d walked in the door That hat he would want if someone had showed up unannounced at his house And his house definitely resey Mariana told me that ere invited for dinner It appears that we’ve been hoodwinked by a couple of ten-year-olds”

Caht a sot home from school and toldand was happy I didn’t have to cook But then I got home and dinner hadn’t been started and et an update And then you were ringing the bell”

Evidently the girls had an accoirls have cooked this up Get it? Cooked?”

She laughed at his laht of the situation when he was standing in another person’s living roo he was anywhere but here?

“The proble to offer you”