I nod “That be great.”
But Austin glares at me “You do realize that Brooke knows what you were saying back there on the stairs, she heard it all.”
I look back at him “She wasn’t.......where was...” but he cuts me off.
“She was hiding at the top of the stairs, around the corner. She has been in her room ever since. Alanna just checked on her but she’s asleep” he says.
Amy looks up at me with guilt and pity in her eyes “I’m sorry, I should have contacted you and asked to come here first” she says.
I shake my head “its ok, but I know I said some thing’s that has hurt her.”
We all stay quiet for a moment but I really need to be on my own. I need to think of a way to make it up to Brooke.
I get up and run to the packhouse, leaving everyone behind without a word. As I closed, my mother’s
