Chapter Seventeen
Sarah sat at the dinner table, trying to distract her parents from asking about Rachel.
“We haven’t seen her all day, though,” her mom said.
“She’s still sleeping, I think,” Sarah said. “I haven’t heard a peep from her room all day.”
“I don’t know, something seems fishy about this whole thing,” her dad said, skeptically.
Sarah waited to see what her parents were going to do. She was surprised that they waited all day to question the situation.
“I’m going upstairs to check on her,” her mother replied. “This is unlike Rachel not to come down all day.”
Sarah sat at the table in suspense. She hoped miraculously that Rachel would be sleeping in her bed when her mom got up to her room. She hoped that she had snuck back in the house without her knowing.
“Sarah! Mark! Hon
