THE weeks passed, and things neither got better, nor worse. Their only achievements were getting Jamie out of soccer practice by claiming he needed to study so he could stay home, and Avery keeping her texting secret from the twins.
Texting Lucas, Elena and the others was the only way Avery made it through the days. Min had surprisingly come around to her completely after their truce, and now made every effort to text her and include her in conversations—over the phone—so she wouldn’t feel excluded, being the only one who couldn’t actually meet up with them.
Min could be remarkably nice when she wanted to be.
And Aunt Stacy was still mad at her, was still giving her an impossible number of tasks when she could, but she just wasn’t in the house enough to punish Avery as much as she wante
