Chapter 22Jesse
Having gone to bed right after dinner, Jesse woke up while it was still pitch-black inside her room and out. Her phone read 4:07 A.M. With a groan she turned over, but the image from her dream remained: not one, but two Julias sitting across from her at Gittie’s dinner table, the real one and the lookalike, aka Nicole, identical smiles on their close-to-identical faces. In the dream, she sat stock still, hardly daring to breathe so as to not disturb them, but to no avail. The real Julia had faded away while the fake one stayed, still smiling. After turning this way and that about a dozen times, Jesse realized that there was no way she was going back to sleep. She slipped out of bed and got dressed. A few minutes later she was outside, treading softly until she had passed t
