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made her way over to him. “You and Ross had summer basketball practice?”
    He scratched his wavy, carrot-colored hair. “Didn’t you hear? Coach Bauer called off summer practice. He’s still messed up about his wife.”
    â€œOh. Right.”
    Coach Bauer’s wife died suddenly near the end of the school year. Marjory Bauer wasn’t that old, forty-eight or forty-nine, like the coach.
    Bauer took a leave from school. Destiny remembered the rumors about him. That he went berserk or something. That neighbors could hear him talking loudly to himself late at night. That he had lost all interest in coaching the team.
    â€œSo are you guys gonna be any good thisyear?” Destiny asked.
    Fletch shrugged. “Ross and I are the only seniors. We’ll have to step it up.”
    â€œAny more Coke?” Bree Daniel called from across the room. Sitting on the floor across from Ari and Courtney, Bree waved her empty soda can in the air.
    Destiny really couldn’t stand Bree, with her screechy mouse voice and her piles of streaky blond hair that fell over her face, and her pierced eyebrows that always made Destiny cringe. Bree had recently become Livvy’s best friend. Or, as Destiny put it, Livvy’s Bad Influence. Bree was the one urging Livvy to get a tattoo. And Livvy had never smoked a cigarette until she started hanging out with Bree.
    â€œThere’s a kind of bug that spits out juice that makes human skin dissolve,” Ari was telling Courtney. “I saw a show about it on the Discovery Channel.”
    â€œAri, get a life,” Fletch said. His cell phone rang. He raised it to his ear.
    â€œI’ll go downstairs and bring up some more drinks,” Destiny said, making her way to the stairs. “And I think we have some bags of nachochips.” She raised her eyes to Livvy, who was practically in Ross’s lap. “Hey, Liv, where’s Dad? Have you seen him?”
    Livvy shrugged in reply. She didn’t take her eyes off Ross.
    Weird, Destiny thought. Dad usually likes to come up and hang out with my friends. She started down the stairs.
    â€œDo you have any cookies or anything?” Bree called after her. “I’m really starving.”
    Destiny pushed open the door and stepped into the kitchen. It took her eyes a moment to adjust to the single, dim ceiling light over the kitchen table.
    â€œOh. Hi,” she said when she realized her dad was sitting at the table. Across from him sat Coach Bauer, his face solemn, hands clasped on the table. Destiny saw a deck of cards in front of her dad, but they appeared untouched.
    â€œHi, Coach,” Destiny said. “How are you?”
    He nodded. “Not bad.” The orange light glared off his bald head.
    Destiny turned to her father. “It’s kind of dark in here, isn’t it?”
    â€œIt’s okay,” he answered softly. “My eyes have been bothering me. Too much time in thelab, I guess.” He removed his glasses and rubbed his temples.
    Destiny pulled open the fridge. “Don’t you two want to come upstairs? You know. Say hi.”
    They looked at each other. “Maybe later,” Dr. Weller said. He picked up the deck of cards, but he made no attempt to deal them out.
    Destiny grabbed a couple of six-packs of soda and balanced two bags of tortilla chips on top of them. She stopped at the doorway and turned back to the two men. “Come on up if you want. I think we’re going to watch one of Ari’s disgusting movies.”
    Her dad gave her a short wave. “Have fun.”
    When Destiny returned, her friends were in a heated discussion. Ari paced in front of the others, talking animatedly. “There were two of them,” he was saying. “I’m not making this up.”
    â€œTwo what?” Destiny asked, tossing a soda to Bree.
    â€œTwo deer,” Ari said. “In Millerton Woods.”
    Destiny turned and stared at him.