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Ravi told the room. “I have SAT prep this morning. I need to get my score up if I’m serious about applying to anywhere Ivy League.”
    Jane rolled her eyes and tried not to regurgitate her granola bar.
    â€œHow did you do on the SATs?” Ravi pointedly asked Jane, stuffing half a Pop-Tart into his mouth.
    Lucky for Jane, he wasn’t the first person she’d had to dodge on this matter. “I did perfectly fine for where I want to go.”
    â€œAnd where do you want to go?” Ravi asked, gesturing with the other half of his Pop-Tart. “I think you’d be good with one of those HVAC repair programs, or maybe a gas station attendant.”
    â€œGee, I don’t know, Mom . Maybe wherever you aren’t?”
    Teo snorted and Jane looked over at him, shocked. Ravi usually tossed insults at Jane, and Jane took them while Teo stood idly by, ignoring their back-and-forth.
    As Jane was about to go on, feeling bolstered by Teo’s seeming appreciation of her level of wit, all three of his sisters came spilling into the kitchen.
    â€œJane, Jane, Jane!” they all said at the same, each of them trying to tell her something different.
    Buck walked in then, too, and patted Teo on the back.
    â€œYou’re looking good this morning,” Buck said to Teo, squeezing his biceps on one arm. “Did you start using heavier weights, like I suggested?”
    Jane would have died on the spot, but Teo seemed to take his stepfather’s words in stride, even if he curled in on himself a bit, crossing his arms and stepping away from Buck.
    Jane would have liked to stay and listen to the rest of the exchange because, damn, she should be getting exercise tips from Teo, and maybe Buck, too, if he was the genius behind Teo’s new body. Unfortunately, the girls were all desperate to take her to the basement and show her various toys.
    â€œMom said we had to wait for the boys to wake up,” Keegan explained, taking Jane’s hand and walking down the carpeted stairs. “We wanted to wake them up, but she wouldn’t let us.”
    The large basement had two separate areas, one with a TV and a sectional couch, where the floor was piled high with blankets and pillows from the sleepover. Beyond that, an area in the back was sectioned off with shelving that held all the girls’ toys, including a kitchen set that Jane would have gone wild for as a kid.
    The girls got deep into playing almost immediately, and Jane joined in. She tried to focus their play on the kitchen area, because, really, it was beautiful, but they seemed to want to play a game that, from what Jane could gather, was essentially My Little Pony DMV. There was a pony behind a couple of blocks in a pile, and the other ponies would step up and ask questions about insurance coverage.
    They didn’t even really want Jane to play, because every time she picked up one of the figures, they would tell her that now Applejack (or whoever) had to go to the end of the line because Jane had made her lose her spot.
    Connie came down to say good-bye to the girls.
    She tsk ed at the mess that the boys had left in the basement and told Jane not to clean it up for them. “They’re big boys. They can handle it.”
    It hadn’t even crossed Jane’s mind to clean it up.
    Connie asked Jane to come back upstairs so they could go through the regular schedule.
    Today would be easy because the girls only had swim class at eleven. “I tried to keep it light to start with so you could get used to the routine and get to know the girls a little bit better,” Connie said.
    â€œThanks,” Jane said, trying to peek around to see if muscle man Teo was still lurking.
    â€œDo you feel okay about driving the minivan?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œAnd make sure the girls are all strapped into their seats before you drive. Sometimes they like to pretend they buckled themselves in, and then they climb into the front