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again.
    Nobody.
    With my heart hammering in my chest, I clutched my bag tightly and hurried away.

Chapter Seven
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    I didn’t slow down until I was about two blocks from home and I heard someone call my name.
    I groaned .
    Megan.
    I’d forgotten all about her invitation.
    She was sitting on her porch, drinking what appeared to be tall glass of lemonade. She smiled and waved me over.
    “ Hi. Where are the other girls?” I asked, climbing the old wooden steps.
    “Oh, they left a while ago.”
    “ Look, I’m sorry I’m late,” I said. “I stopped by that new shop on Main Street, ‘Secrets’, and lost track of time.”
    “ Oh, I totally understand. I’ve been there; it has some really cool things.”
    I nodded.
    “You didn’t happen to see Tyler there, did you?”
    “Yes, actually, his mother owns that shop.”
    “Fascinating,” she said, twirling a long black strand of hair around her finger. With her large chocolate eyes and perfect cheekbones, I knew I wouldn’t have much of a chance against someone as pretty as her if she was setting her sights on Tyler.
    “Um, so I on ly have a little while,” I said, wanting to get off the subject of Tyler.
    “Come on then,” she said, waving me inside of her house, which, honestly, looked like it had been built in the eighteen hundreds and hadn’t been painted or fixed up since then, either. It was kind of creepy-looking and I knew that some of the younger children in the neighborhood were frightened of it, saying that it looked haunted. To me, it just looked old and worn.
    “You have a massive home,” I said as we walked inside.
    She smiled. “Yeah. We inherited this mons trosity from my grandmother. You can get lost inside of this place if you’re not careful.”
    “I bet,” I said. The house had to be over four thousand square feet. “You must have had fun playing hide-and-seek here as a child.”
    Her eyes lit up. “Yeah, oh, my God, it was a blast! My cousins and I would hide and sometimes it would take over an hour to find someone.”
    I smiled. “Cool.”
    We walked through several candlelit rooms and I noticed that most of the furniture was covered with sheets, which I thought was kind of odd, since they were living in the house.
    “It keeps the dust off,” she remarked, noticing my confusion.
    “Oh.”
    “You know, it’s just me and my mother, unless we have guests, then she takes the sheets off.”
    “You don’t have to explain anything to me,” I said. “A big house like this, I totally understand.”
    “Yeah, it’s a bitch to clean, too, especially that room,” she said as we passed a small, cluttered library. “Thankfully I’m only responsible for my bedroom.”
    “ This place is so big, it would take forever to dust and polish all of these floors,” I stated, noticing that most of it was hardwood.
    “Watch where you’re walking,” said Megan , as two cats raced by, chasing each other. “My mother has ten cats running around here somewhere.”
    “Hi there,” I said to a tabby wh o’d brushed up against my leg before taking off to follow the other two cats.
    “My room’s upstairs,” said Megan as we neared the staircase.
    “ So, um, where’s your mom?” I asked.
    “Oh, she’s probably around … somewhere.”
    We went u p the old winding stairway and down two more hallways until we finally reached her room. “Come on in,” she said, opening the door with a secretive smile.
    I gasped when I entered her bedroom; it was so different from the rest of the house.
    She smiled at my shock. “I know, right?”
    As I stepped onto her plush cream carpeting, I stared in awe at all of the modern décor in a room that was twice the size of mine. Basically, it was the coolest bedroom, I’d ever seen.
    “Pottery Barn,” she said, waving her hand in the air. “Gotta love them.”
    “This room is amazing,” I said, staring at her large flat-screen television, which was bigger than the one in our