"How- When-" I stammer and stutter, completely befuddled by the appearance of this new door. It really is just a door, made of the same wood and painted the same as the rest of the kitchen. Even the doorknob matches perfectly: a slightly tarnished steel, similar to that of the kitchen appliances around us. But I have been in this house, and in this kitchen, countless times. There has never been a door there. Nor a room on the other side of that wall! The kitchen lies in one of the back corners of the house, across from the dining room. That wall should only have part of a flower garden beyond it. Not an entire room!
"Mom, we don't have time for that!" Cassie whisper-whines to her mother, snapping me out of my internal conundrum. "Plus, they'll notice she left. We'll have to get them out o
