Chapter 272: The New House
NICK
I had a room now. A real one, not a guest room I borrowed for two hours,an actual room with my own stuff in it, and a desk by the window, and the new star nightlight that Mum got to match the one back at Dad's house.
I was still getting used to that part. The "actual room" part.
It was loud here. Not bad loud, good loud, mostly, the kind where you could hear people in other parts of the house doing their own things, and it made the whole place feel full instead of empty. Grandma Jennifer was always in the kitchen. Grandpa Parker read in the sitting room with his door a little open, which Mum told me was his way of saying, "Come find me if you want to."
And Lake and Drew were there.
Not every day, but enough days that I'd stopped keeping track of which
