Aiden’s POV Mrs. Walter convinced me to let Valerie spend the night over. After lunch we all stayed in the living room for a while, talking and laughing about nothing important. I smiled when I was supposed to, answered when someone asked me a question, but my mind wasn’t there. Every thought kept circling back to Gabby. It hadn’t always been like this. I wasn’t always such a perverted creep who is harboring forbidden thoughts towards his little sister. The first time I looked at her and didn’t see my little sister was during a thunderstorm three years ago. She had walked into my room the way she always did when the sky cracked open…barefoot, wearing nothing but one of my old polos that barely covered the tops of her thighs. She climbed onto the bed without asking, threw one smooth

