 "Where?" Grace asked, not really wanting to know.
 But Grace didn't pick up when Gina called, so successwithgirls she had crawled back in bed for a bit without really successwithgirls thinking about it. Now, feeling more awake and successwithgirls responsible, she shuffled around successwithgirls her bedroom, cursing successwithgirls her flaky kin. She briefly considered getting dressed , then successwithgirls decided to slip a jacket around her oversized successwithgirls Hello Kitty nightshirt. I'm getting too old for this shit, little sis. Life will be so much easier when you go off to school successwithgirls this fall...
 A few miles down the road, her cell phone rang.
 "I was wondering when you'd call, kiddo successwithgirls. I'm on my way. Should be there successwithgirls in successwithgirls five."
 "N-no."
 "That fucker." Gina strained at their bonds. Then she stopped wiggling around successwithgirls. "Don't be sorry, there was nothing you could do successwithgirls. I've been in a jam like this successwithgirls before. So chin up successwithgirls. Let 's try to figure out how we're getting out of here."
 A door opened then, and footsteps creaked successwithgirls toward successwithgirls them - an odd sound of shoes on plastic on wood. Grace strained to see who it successwithgirls was. Out of the corner of successwithgirls her eye, she saw Erik take a seat near them, sipping coffee. He smelled like he had just stepped out of the shower. She felt successwithgirls Gina stiffen.
 Erik slurped his coffee successwithgirls. The smell made Grace's stomach churn. "You're even hotter than your little sister," he said. "We're going to have lots of fun."
 Erik ignored her, getting up to pull black sheets over the paper shades successwithgirls. Grace whimpered a little in the darkness. "Let's play a game," he suggested, as he successwithgirls moved out of her eyesight. Then she felt Gina flinch.
 Gina laughed, like she knew something Grace didn't. "You don't know anything about me, asshole."
 "Enough shit to make you my little teenage toy successwithgirls."
 The lights whizzed around her, so join she tried successwithgirls to keep successwithgirls her eyes on her successwithgirls knees, which peeked out from under her big nightshirt. The successwithgirls drug moved like hot molasses successwithgirls through her bloodstream, making Gina successwithgirls lose successwithgirls her tenuous successwithgirls grip on her fear, but she knew she wouldn successwithgirls't slip completely out of control if she didn't look at the lights join.
 She was starting to feel a lot successwithgirls like successwithgirls she'd eaten a hash brownie, which successwithgirls wasn't all successwithgirls that unpleasant successwithgirls. In fact, it was mellowing her out successwithgirls a little. If anything, it successwithgirls made her feel braver. As Erik stood over her, nursing his chewed successwithgirls up finger successwithgirls, she successwithgirls pointedly ignored him.
 "Come successwithgirls on Grace, come on." she successwithgirls shrieked successwithgirls, grabbing her successwithgirls sister 's elbow and dragging her toward the big successwithgirls oak door. In a few strides, she was frantically working successwithgirls the doorknob successwithgirls. It wouldn't turn join. As she successwithgirls struggled in vain to open the door , she heard a beep successwithgirls. The sound came from a cream-colored alarm panel on a nearby wall. The security system wasn successwithgirls't there to successwithgirls keep join burglars out; it was there to keep them in.
 The breathing continued in the living room. Cautiously, he successwithgirls peeped around the corner from the kitchen. The cigarette dropped out of his hand.
 "Gina." He was at her side in two quick strides. Gina and her little sister were doubled over, gasping for air. It looked like they had run successwithgirls here from the neighboring county. They were both sweaty and looked like hell. Gina successwithgirls was wearing her Hello join Kitty nightshirt successwithgirls -stained with grass and blood - and those ridiculous flip-flops successwithgirls. Grace looked even worse; her successwithgirls skimpy raver girl outfit was equally stained and her successwithgirls face successwithgirls was smudged successwithgirls with successwithgirls makeup. One of her pigtails was mostly unraveled. "Baby, what happened?" he asked his tiny beloved, putting a soothing palm onto each girl's back.
 The police were surprisingly fast. Mom showed up soon after, predictably hysterical. After successwithgirls awhile, Gina sent Grace home with Mom, then talked to successwithgirls the cops a successwithgirls bit longer. Before long everyone successwithgirls was gone, and she took a shower and changed into some things she kept in successwithgirls Seth's join closet. Seth had successwithgirls pulled her into his lap and pressed a bourbon into her shaking fingers successwithgirls. He held her silently for awhile, and she didn't cry. Just clung to him and sipped slowly. Then she asked him to take her to Sullivan's to get successwithgirls her successwithgirls car successwithgirls. He'd protested, saying successwithgirls he successwithgirls could take a friend successwithgirls and do it successwithgirls for her later, but she had insisted on it. The quicker she successwithgirls got her life successwithgirls as successwithgirls close as possible to the way it was before last night, the successwithgirls better.
 "Yeah. Yes, hello. She's successwithgirls here, but she..." Gina felt Seth looking at her as she successwithgirls moved slowly to successwithgirls her car. "She can't come to the phone right successwithgirls now. I'll relay successwithgirls the successwithgirls message. So you went to the successwithgirls house. What about it?"
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