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“This do?”
    I nodded.
    We both stared at the food on our plates once David placed them on the table. I wasn’t hungry. Well, I was, my stomach was growling, but I felt too ill to eat. David looked unhappy, too. It hit me that I was being selfish. His dad was missing. He must be worried sick. I stretched out my hand and touched his fingers. “It’ll be okay.”
    He nodded. “I know you don’t feel like it, but try and eat a little. I’ll do the same. We’ll need our strength for the trip back.”
    I picked up a piece of bacon and bit off a piece. It was delicious. David did the same. “David, what did the note say?”
    “The note was from Dan and Sophie. Do you recognize the names?”
    “Sophie’s on the cheer squad–”
    “No, not that Sophie,” David interrupted.
    “Which one, then? I know a few.”
    “Raj’s associates, Sophie and Dan.”
    “No.”
    “From what the note says, they’ve got my dad. The note doesn’t say what they want or anything, so I guess we’ll have to wait until they make contact.” He closed his eyes, clearly agitated.
    I held his hand. “Why would they take your dad?”
    He opened his eyes again, “I can only guess that they’ve run out of money or something. They’ve been on the run for a whole year, and it’s not like they can get regular work.”
    “On the run from what?”
    “The FBI. Raj tried to kill my dad last year. They’ve both been on the run since then.”
    “Why? Why would they want to kill your dad?”
    “Not Sophie and Dan. I’m fairly sure they didn’t bargain for all this. However, they’re reaping the consequences. While Raj is living it up in the Bahamas, they’re on the run.”
    “Raj isn’t living it up exactly,” I said.
    “What do you mean? The house seemed very nice….”
    “That wasn’t his house. He was staying at a motel somewhere.”
    “So whose house was it?”
    “Stan brought me to it, said it belonged to his family.”
    “I guess that makes sense. It’s probably one of Potomal’s houses.”
    “Tell me about Potomal.”
    “You really don’t remember a thing, do you?”
    “Why don’t you start telling me what’s happened? Was I in some kind of accident? Do I have amnesia? Or have I had amnesia? What?”
    “Not exactly. But you have lost a whole year, like Kellan and I explained,” he snapped.
    I recoiled at his angry tone. “Are you still angry with me for not showing up at Starbucks?”
    “No. Sorry, I didn’t mean for it to come out like that. I’m not angry anymore. I was, though. More disappointed than angry. I was going to ask you to the Ball.”
    “Can’t we go to the next one instead?”
    “Poppet, a lot of things have happened, and–”
    “So you keep saying! Like what? Whatever’s happened, you still feel the same for me, don’t you?”
    He stood and began pacing. “I can’t bring you up to date; it’s not up to me. I’ve already told you that you’ve been living as the girl you would have been, had your mom not moved to Mountain View. I can’t explain it to you. Your parents need to. In the meantime, know that I love you. I always have and always will, no–”
    The kitchen phone buzzed, startling me. I was right next to it, so I answered. “Hello?”
    “Hey! Can I speak to Morena?”
      I froze as a chill went up my body. I didn’t know why, but I was unable to speak.
    David jerked to attention, looking at me worriedly. “What’s the matter?”
    I handed him the receiver.
    David’s tight face relaxed and broke into a smile as he talked into the phone “ A ? Yeah, I’m fine. You okay?”
    He walked out of the room leaving me alone. I tried to listen in to the conversation, but he was practically whispering. A ? Who was that? Why had I frozen like that?
    He was back in minutes, but his phone buzzed again as soon as he walked in. “Mom, yes.”
    This time he didn’t leave, but the call was one-sided with his mom doing most of the talking.
    “So?” I asked, once he was