TWENTY-ONE
After watching home movies with Poppy and Charley for a couple of hours, Val went to make dinner. That led to Poppy eating with not only Val and Charley, but Zoey and the twins too. All of them were welcoming. Charley was proud of her sisters, even if she did moan at them for most of the evening.
By the time everyone else was beginning to wind down, she and Charley had to think about work. Charley raced up the stairs to get changed, leaving Poppy alone downstairs. The rest of the family were in the kitchen or sitting on the back porch.
Poppy took one more look at the living room before going outside onto the front porch. Glancing around, she went to sit on the stairs. She needed to breathe for a few seconds and wanted to take in the street, the neighborhood.
Turner had grown
