Vance Kat’s heat had finally ended after four days, and I was the last person she wanted to be in a room with. She wanted to get out of the house for the day, so she, Paris, and Lydia decided to go shopping. Since they didn’t know the city very well, Franklin and Skye volunteered to go with them. It would be a few hours before they returned, so I decided to head to my office and catch up on some work for a bit. Things have been going great since the girls moved in, although Kat, at first, would get a bit uncomfortable whenever my mother was in the same room. It’s been getting better though, and Kat didn’t try to avoid her as much as she did when she first moved here. I completely understood why, but I could tell that it was disheartening for my mother. I had to remind Kat what her mother

