I wasn't convinced that Brooke had not done any research to find out more about Blake, but I was so grateful that she was letting me do this that I didn’t really care - and if she was letting me go, she must have found out he was trustworthy, anyway. She went to fetch her make-up, and I wondered whether this was another attempt to bond and help me feel like we were something close to real sisters, or if it was just because she thought I looked like a kid and that it would look really weird for me to be doing anything with Blake if I didn’t look more like my actual age. I sat still as she carefully applied the make-up to me as if I was sitting for a portrait. I was worried that if I moved she might slip and I would end up looking like a clown or something, and so I held my breath every ti

