4
“Cuz, you look rattled,” Destiny said as I entered the kitchen in our basement.
Darius, Destiny, and Allegra were at the kitchen table, nursing mugs of hot chocolate. It looked like they had been talking a while.
“I'm fine,” I said, slipping out of my coat.
“You don't look fine,” Destiny said.
I poured myself a cup of hot chocolate from a pot on the stove, and I eased into the last empty chair at our tiny little table.
Sipping the hot cocoa goodness made it easy for me to forget about Harriet.
“What'd I miss?” I asked.
Destiny’s gaze on me lingered.
I knew she knew something was wrong. She was going to ask me about it later. I hoped she'd forget.
“We were talking about Allegra’s dream,” Darius said. “By the way, Allegra, would you like some more hot chocolate?”
Allegra nodded.
