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need to brush my teeth and
reapply lipstick. Come with?” Miranda asked, standing
up.
    I nodded and stood up to follow her
out of the cafeteria.
    “Hey Miranda, so Wyatt’s not upset
about Leif so much now,” I coaxed, waiting to see how she
responded.
    Miranda peered back over her
shoulder, “Who?”
     
     
    Mom wasn’t home. Fantastic. I was
alone. I closed the door behind me and scanned the kitchen to see
if there were any unwanted visitors either floating around or, in
Leif’s case, walking around. The coast seemed clear but that didn’t
calm my nerves much. I dropped my bag on the table and walked over
to the fridge to get a drink and make myself a sandwich.
    A taco salad complete with a crispy
tortilla bowl was wrapped up with a sticky note on top.
    Gone out with Roger. Be back late.
I ordered your favorite from Los Tacos. Enjoy.
    Love you,
    Mom
    Add
this to the fact that she’d left me at home alone and I could kiss
her face. I was starving after nothing but a roll for lunch. I’d
tutored two freshmen after school and there had been no time for
eating then. Now it was after six and I swear my big intestines
were eating my little intestines. I needed food. Grabbing the salad
and a can of soda I headed for the living room. After hearing
Miranda talk about this week’s Pretty Little Liars ,
I wanted to watch it myself.
    Sinking down onto the couch with my
meal I tucked my feet up under me and turned on the television.
Thanks to good ‘ol Roger, my mom’s boyfriend, we had ourselves a
nice new sixty-two inch flat screen on the wall. Roger was the
district manager over the Best Buys in this area so he got killer
deals. I’d already dropped the hint I was in the market for a new
laptop. My old one was headed to the grave yard fast.
    “Pagan.”
    Screaming, I dropped my fork and
scanned the room for the owner of that voice.
    Leif stood just inside the doorway
leading into the kitchen. He didn’t look ghostly or freaky. He just
looked like Leif. Except he was in my house. Uninvited. And he
didn’t have a soul.
    “Pagan,” he repeated.
    I opened my mouth to asked him what
the heck when he disappeared in front of me as Gee came storming in
the door like she was on the warpath.
    “Where is he? Where’s that little
shit at? I felt him. Now WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?”
    I watched as Gee scanned the living
room and stalked into the kitchen. “He’s gone. Freaking coward,”
she said out loud as she stormed up the steps.
    I sat frozen waiting for Gee to
calm down and come back into the room. I was still reeling over
Leif being in my house and Gee was yelling curse words while she
searched every corner.
    “You okay?” she asked once she
walked back into the room. I tried to nod but I couldn’t manage.
Instead, I forced a “mmm” out of my throat. My heart was still
racing so fast it felt as if it was going to beat through my
chest.
    “Deep breaths, Peggy Ann. Take deep
breaths. Don’t get his majesty over here raining down hell on all
who get in his path because his girl is scared
shitless.”
    Her colorful vocabulary caused a
giggle to erupt and I was able to take the deep breath she
suggested.
    “There we go. Good girl,” she
affirmed with a satisfied smile and sank down on the sofa beside
me.
    I stared down at the salad in my
lap trying to work through my head the fact that Leif had been in
my house. He’d just appeared out of nowhere. Had it been something
else that looked like Leif? He’d sure sounded like Leif.
    “You gonna eat that?” Her question
sounded more like a demand as she motioned to the salad bowl that
had miraculously not been spilled all over the floor during the
drama.
    I needed to eat it. I hadn’t eaten
all day but the hunger was gone. Now I felt slightly
ill.
    “That was Leif, right?” I asked
turning my head so I could see her face.
    “Yep. Little shit. Showing up like
a damn coward and scaring you like that. Ain’t so sweet now, is
he?”
    I glanced back over to where