ASHER As much as I hoped he would, my father still did not focus on Julia. Just on me. If I could have gotten off without telling him about Hannah, I would sure have done it. i couldn't understand why i was being faulted for every of Julia's faults. First, she decided to poison Hannah and she couldn't even do it right. If she hadn't botched her elaborately planned murder, we wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't be staring at me like I was a pile of s**t. Hannah wouldn't have embarrased me and worse, rejected me. I still couldn't believe that but it was all Julia's fault. "This is no loss for us," my father said. "The solution can be easily remedied. You see the solution to all this, don't you?" When I shook my head, he gave me that disappointed look I had been getting lately. "Hannah mu

