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for
privacy.
    “Are you home?” I ask. Please say yes. Please
say yes.
    “Hi to you, too,” Jac says. “We’re still in
Mexico.”
    “Oh, Jac. I need you here. I’ve had two bad
days.”
    “Bad as in awesome or really bad.”
    “Really bad. When are you coming back?”
    “We’re hoping to be home a few days before
the wedding. “What’s going on? She asks.
    I tell her everything. Except about Fairy
Godmonster.
    “Scott sounds cool. Do you like him?”
    I think about it. My heart beats faster.
“Yeah.”
    “I knew it!” she exclaims. “Your voice sounds
different when you talk about him.”
    I’m glad she can’t see my face.
    “Here’s my advice,” she adds. “Be careful
around Weasel. She could give you big trouble. Ignore the
brat.”
    She chats on. “This is what you do.
Everything they tell you to. It’s the only way to keep the peace.
Weddings are very stressful. Once I was a bridesmaid for my cousin,
Perlita. She locked herself in the bathroom with the groom and made
the wedding two hours late. The guests ate the reception buffet
while they were waiting.”
    We laugh and Jac catches me up on her
vacation and the three boys competing for
    her attention. She keeps talking, her
favorite thing to do, until her mother makes her hang up.
    I feel better. Until I walk back into the
house.
     
     

Chapter 13: Road Closed - Deserted
     
    Weasel is waiting for me in the hall. “I need
the invitations, Winifred.”
    Dad strides into the room. “I’m sorry to
interrupt, Erminia. I need to talk to Winifred privately. I haven’t
had time to discuss my business plans with her.”
    “Of course, Charles.” She smiles at him and
joins her husband who is on the phone in the living room. Daria
sits next to him, kicking Mr. Dudley’s leg. He ignores her.
    I turn to Dad. “What’s up?”
    “Let’s go outside.”
    I follow him out the back door.
    “Win, I’m buying the stallion we wanted.”
    “Awesome! This is so great! Wow! Who will you
breed him to first? Mitsu? Delilah, Sonora - ?”
    Dad interrupts, laughing. “Calm down. I’m as
excited as you are. There’s a hitch. The owner won’t hold him until
after the wedding. I have to get him now.”
    “A road trip.” I sigh with happiness. “It’ll
be great, just the two of us.”
    “I’m sorry, Win. As much as I want you with
me, you have to stay home.”
    “What!”
    “The stallion is in Florida. If I leave now,
I can just make it back before the rehearsal dinner,” Dad says.
    “You can’t leave me here. Hire a
transport.”
    “You know I personally take care of our
horses, Win.”
    “Please, let me go. You have trouble staying
awake. Mr. Winters and his son always take over the ranch when we
have to go on a trip.”
    “Not this time. Mr. Winters is on vacation
and I won’t trust my ranch to anyone else. David is too busy with
the wedding.”
    He hesitates.
    A horrible heaviness seeps into me. I wait
for the bomb to explode.
    “Now don’t be mad. I asked Scott to go with
me. He’s old enough to help drive.”
    The world stops. My heart explodes and the
ground seems mushy under my feet. I can barely breathe. I stand
there, dazed.
    “It’s awkward enough, having to leave our
guests for over two weeks. Luckily, the
    Dudley’s understand and support my decision.
I want you to be very grownup.”
    “I don’t want to be grownup if it means I
can’t be with you,” I mumble.
    “We don’t always have a choice. I need you to
stay here.”
    Stay here? With the rat, the brat and the
cat?
    “But, Dad - ”
    “We’re leaving in a few minutes.”
    I shout, “I’m glad you decided to inform me
before you left!”
    Dad frowns. “Your sarcasm is getting out of
control, young lady. I know it won’t be easy for you. Erminia can
be demanding. Impossible, even. I don’t have a choice. I expect you
to do everything she wants or needs. With respect. I don’t want to
come home and hear that you have misbehaved. She is in