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The first bedroom I peek into is a small one with a desk and a couch in it, the only indication that it’s actually a spare bedrooold lamp, a damask wallpaper still stuck to the walls

I’ the prie What’s giving me pause is the co person, not a grown-up

I know for a fact both Jack and Eliza adore coiant flat-screen television is on the opposite wall, and I poke around to find the large adjacent bathroom

There’s a big bathtub, a shower, double sinks, and a walk-in closet

Lucky!

A bath would be so aht now

I haven’t taken one in ages, and maybe it would relieve some of this tension in my shoulders I would never actually do it, but I totally want to

Can you iine if I climbed into the tub, made myself at home, and then Eliza and Jack ca in a sea of bubbles?

They don’t even know I’m here Hoould that be? Plus, it would probably be a dra in their bathroom naked

I flip off the light and exit their bedroo back down the hallway to check out Ro, a little desk la on his bedside table

He has ed tothe walls already filled with awards and accolades, even a fewfrom them I walk over to the with interest as s

All of them are academic, which I already kind of assumed was the case

On his bed is a basic comforter, but it looks really nice—expensive, even At the foot of the bed is a trunk Everything is neat and orderly, unlike anized chaos

I make my way over to theso I can peer out into the backyard, down at the child’s playset the previous owners of the house left behind It’s old and rusty and one of the chains for the swings has broken, liround in a heap