"Lucy, the door."
Lucy froze in place on Thursday evening.
Something about Elise's comment had caught her off guard.
Instead of placing emphasis on 'the door', as she usually did, Elise had pointedly placed emphasis on Lucy's name.
Elise—who strung her sentences together so precisely; who chose her words so carefully, with some inconspicuous intended meaning behind each phrase that Lucy was always determined to uncover—had said something in a way that Lucy never thought she would.
You're being crazy. Thinking way too much into it, Lucy told herself as she closed the door. It means nothing...
But did it? Did it mean something?
The thought plagued Lucy's mind as she worked.
Why was Elise so hard to understand? How could she seem like she was opening up to Lucy, but then ever so subtl
