CHAPTER 9
Peyton walked down the stairs and found her mom stirring something in the kitchen, her dad sitting on the couch flipping through Netflix—typical—and her rotten brother sitting at the dinner table looking at his phone. She stopped on the last stair and leaned up against the wall and crossed her arms. Their dad was the first to look up and put his remote down. He stood up from the couch and crossed his arms, looking at Chris.
When Chris didn’t notice either of them for about a minute, their dad cleared his throat, which made Chris jump out of his seat. Apparently, he was still on edge from the talk they had earlier. He looked around and saw his dad first staring him down and then looked over and saw Peyton standing nonchalantly at the bottom of the stairs with a blank look on her
