✦Dolly✦ If I thought people were a bit much before, it was worse after what happened in town. My father kept reaching for me, like he wanted to comfort me in some way. But then he would stop himself. I wasn’t sure why, and it bothered me. Was it because he still felt bad for not telling me the truth about Cybil? Or did he feel guilty for not being able to help with whatever the hell was going on? My mother had stopped talking altogether. I had a feeling she was still in shock and trying to deal with everything in her own way. Elias kept to himself, but his eyes stayed on me whenever we were in the same room together. None of that mattered. Ronnie and Blaise had returned with takeout from Techno café, but it wasn’t the food that I was interested in. We had a lot to talk about, and I wa

