Chapter 6: Christmas DayShe knew she had to call her family before the others woke up, so Tess set her alarm early the next morning. When it went off, muffled by the pillow so she wouldn’t wake up Colette, it was still half dark outside. Tess put a sweater on over her pajamas and grabbed her phone as she stepped out onto the balcony.
Behind her, Colette mumbled in her sleep. Her mouth hung open and her hair was splayed across the pillow; Tess smiled. Carefully, she closed the door.
The balcony attached to Colette’s bedroom was wide and long, with a wooden chair in one corner that was now covered in snow, and a curved metal railing lined the edge, with a few strands of ivy growing around the base of its iron spokes. Tess leaned against the edge, her eyes fixed on the scene before her.
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