Chapter 26

Staying at home by myself while my sister and parents went to the funeral wasn’t an option, so I was at Lucy’s house. It was fine, better, probably, than staying at home alone, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to talk anymore about what was going on with my sister. It was all Lucy wanted to talk about.

Emma was there, too, but she seemed indifferent. We decided to set up in Lucy’s bedroom so that when the rest of her family came back from the funeral we wouldn’t be overheard. The more Lucy went over what we knew and what we didn’t know, the more I wanted to shout for her to just stop. Somehow, it felt wrong talking about my sister’s problems—or whatever they were—while Drew was lying in a casket somewhere, being sunk beneath the earth, and covered with dirt.

Lucy didn’t seem to see it that way. She’d made a Wiki about what we’d found out so far. She drilled me about my conversation with Jack and what I&r