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not able to look at them any longer. I continue looking around and see pictures of Sarah with various family members. The pictures sit around on end tables, and they are hung in various places on the walls.
    I walk out of the sitting room and down the hallway , making my way to the kitchen. As I’m walking, I notice a painting hanging on the wall of Sarah. This must’ve been done after I moved, because I don’t remember it.
    Looking into her eyes, she looks sad. When I left, her eyes were happy and she didn’t have a worry in the world. I wonder what happened to make her experiment with pills. I decide that I’ve been alone long enough and join everyone in the kitchen. As I walked into the kitchen, everyone turns and looks at me.
    “ I’m all right. Sorry to keep you all waiting.” I say making eye contact with each person.
    Donna introduced Landon, Casey, and Patrick before I had the chance. But that’s ok ay with me. I’m not good with introductions anyway. I feel weird being in Sarah’s house without her. There’s only one thing that I want to do before I go home. I have to look one last time into Sarah’s room.
    “ Donna, can I ask you a question?” I ask, noticing I’m already asking her a question.
    “ Sure, anything.” Donna replies in concern.
    “ Do you mind if I take a look around Sarah’s room? I need to see it. I think it’ll make it easier for me to get through this.”
    “ Sure, dear. If you think it’ll help.”
    “ I think it will.”
    “ No problem. You know this is the quietest I have seen my house in the past couple days.” Donna states.
    “ Really?” Casey asks.
    “ Yeah.” Donna replies.
    “ What...from family and close friends paying their respects to the loved ones or something like that?” Casey asks.
    Damn, you’d think she wasn’t familiar with this. I could only think of one word…duh!
    Donna replies. “It’s been busy because of all the cops and investigators coming in and out. I’ll tell you what they think happened. I’m sure you want to know. Just bear with me, it’s still hard for me. My psychologist told me it’s easier to get over something as hard as this if I talk about it. I have been. I’ve told this same story over and over again. At first it all seemed like a really bad dream that I wanted to wake up from.”
    “ I know the feeling.” I cut in.
    “ I found her in her room. We had a fight because I didn’t approve of the kids she was hanging out with. They’re different than the usual kids you two hung out with. Sarah changed a lot after you moved. She stopped going to the ‘Round-a-bout, no movies at the theater, and no hanging out in the tree house. You two always said you’d never be too big for that old thing.” Donna pointed out.
    With a laugh, I repl y, “Yeah, I remember Allen wanted to get rid of it one summer to make room for the pool. Sarah threw a fit. I didn’t care either way. But it was Sarah’s and her choice to make.”
    “ Oh, yeah! I couldn’t get the girls to sleep inside when Allen finally finished it. It’s like Sarah moved into it. She’d wake up in it, get ready for school in there, and leave from there for school. When Sarah and Amber came home, both would be in there ‘til dinner time. At times it felt like it took forever to get them to come and eat.” Donna exclaims.
    “ What’s so special about it?” Casey asks.
    I explain. “Sarah and I didn’t have our own place to be ourselves. I guess you could say, everyone we went to school with said we were witches. I personally didn’t like the other girls because they were too fake. It’s all about money here. It’s about who has what in their family, as an example, military. If someone was enlisted within the family, they were popular. If not, you weren’t even worth walking past.”
    “ That’s harsh.” Casey says, shaking her head.
    “ This was one of the main reasons why I stuck to myself when I first moved up there. I didn’t want any