Eight

After the break in, my father insisted on not letting me stay home by myself. But seeing as he couldn't stay with me I got to ask Gaia to skip school a couple days, but she couldn't do it every day seeing as she was in the school, still fixing a few pages of layout that wouldn't match up, so Jake stayed with me on a few days. But today was a particularly sunny day, and I had nobody to sit inside with me and hate the sun. So instead I was forced to lay in my bed and think about all my life decisions that led me to staring at the sun that glittered and sparked and broke into a million pieces as it weaved through so glittery tulle in the upper left hand corner of my bedpost. The light sparkling got so much more intense I thought my irises had shattered and I was getting some form of double vision, but when I looked up I just saw Edward standing there in the light that beamed through, Maddie gave a small growl. "Immobulus," I commanded to Maddie, getting a strange look from Edward. "She's