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It was three in theout of ht on the stove’s hood the next tiht to see by The ht, but the dark house leftuneasy Or maybe I was just uneasy

Footsteps sounded upstairs Soanyone up

A minute later, Claudia walked into the roohtmare"

"No fun"

"No" I stopped ainst to counter to watch her

Claudia got a glass ofdrink of ood friends, you know If we’d gotten the chance"

"Yeah?" That was surprising I didn’t think I knew her well enough to know that

"Yeah I mean, ourI wanted to hearabout my mom’s sister They didn’t really talk "Where is your mom?" I asked as I sat down at the table

Claudia shrugged "MyThere was a lot of tension there, and Mo else About three years ago, she said she’d had enough She and ood My dad couldn’t really stick around if she was leaving, even if he wanted to He wasn’t part of the coven They asked us to go with them But I was seventeen I wanted to stay I felt like I needed to stay So I did Raphael wanted to go, but he wouldn’t leavedecision Soetup I set out to fix things here, and I’ until I do"

She sounded like uy? You’re supposed to besoh to spark roaned "He’s a classic douchebag"

I snort-laughed

"What?" She asked

"You just always sound so proper"