I guessed it was a high enough price to pay.
But she had told me about the pond inside. Everyone wanted to see the pond. It was the price everyone went for. It could show the past, future, or present. Anything a person wanted to know. And only five people had ever done it.
I always wondered what I wanted the pond to show me, but I had everything I wanted. It was useless for me to want to go in there. Regardless, it fascinated me.
We finished my perfect thirteenth birthday cake up in my tree house: Blake, Lucian, Annie, Samantha, and me. Arianna was too much of a girly girl to want to climb the ladder, and she had a boyfriend now. The year away from Blake had done it.
Blake had a bottle of booze with him. Amid appreciative whoops, he passed it on to all of us.
I hated the smell and the
