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Lisa
47 days since leaving Grace
Avoiding Mother was only possible in a limited way. Lisa could manage it, but she soon realized if she didn’t make an appearance at least once a day, Mother started to get twitchy.
“Twitchy” was Jake’s word for it. Jake was her newsfeed to the outside world, letting her know when he was going shopping, buying her peanut butter and bread she could keep in her room.
She still had to leave to get jelly, though he’d bought her an entire flat of water. She heard Singer and Mother fighting about it once when she was grabbing a few bananas.
“He shouldn’t enable her like that,” Mother said tersely.
“By buying her water? What would you rather we do, let her get dehydrated?”
“She needs help, Singer.”
Singer said something to that, but Lisa had escaped bac
