Chapter Nine
Jake
When I walk down the stairs, Elly fast asleep in her room after I’ve read two stories to her because she was so excited, I find the others around the table in the kitchen, where I left them about an hour ago.
“She finally asleep?” Tom grins and I nod.
“Yeah, she said she couldn’t fall asleep because my reading was too good.” I sit down between Mia and Mal. “Anything interesting come up since I went upstairs?”
Mia shakes her head. “We were just talking about what we had to do around the house here, and what we had to take care of in our own places. Like moving our own things into this house. What are we keeping, what are we getting rid of.”
I nod. “Yeah. That’s going to be fun... I think I’ll have to sell off a lot of things from my place. Pretty sure we don’t need a
