Chapter 44

My heart pounding, I press the stop button on the remote as fast

as I can and return my wide eyes to Kent, who is still looking at

  1. me.

Please, please, please. By all that is holy, let him not have seen me

watching his sex tape.

“What are you doing in here,” he asks, angry.

“Um,” I say, terrified, hoping he doesn’t pick up on the tremor

in my voice. “Fiona brought me here? Said I could look through

some…” my eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. “Some family photo albums? And home videos?”

He narrows his eyes at me, his eyes flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor. “She shouldn’t have brought you down here,” he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

I scurry out of the room, praying with all my might

the VCR.

door behind me as I head

“Don’t

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to my room so I can bury my nose into a very different kind of book, my hand

looking for it. Then, slowly, I turn back towards the little

have fallen out in the weird

room.

dad or Janeen

to the little door in

listen. I don’t hear a sound. Tentatively, I put a

a creek.

stairs and through the

the little room and grab my phone, which is sitting on

the VCR and put it back in

good. Now no one will ever know.

room and, quiet as a mouse, shut the

to creep back along the hallway when I hear something to

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