“Vanes?” Crystal called softly while knocking on the door leading to her cousin’s bedroom. She didn’t want to voice it out load, but she was worried. Vanessa was usually the most level-headed one between the three of them. “Go away!” Sighing, Crystal turned the knob before entering the room and closing the door behind her. “I said...!” “I know what you said. I heard you the first time Nes, but I’m not leaving, and you know that. Not before we talked.” “And if I don’t want to talk?” The voice was so unlike her normal calm and collected-ness where she sat in her wheelchair in front of the window to the garden. Their fathers’ had specifically lowered the windowsill for her when she was small so she could always see outside whenever she wanted to. The bedroom was in different shades of lil

