I quickly felt overwhelmed by all the togetherness. Then Alice decided she should be the one to decorate the Cabins. Since they were the sample houses... for one their villages, she thought it made sense. I didn't and told her so. There were serious discussions but no real fights."Look why don't you let Alice do one and you do the other. That seems like the only fair thing. You don't want this hanging over you," Jeremy decided."All right, but no built-ins and I will not pay for your fru fru shit,". ”The next morning, Nora was walking up to Darby’s house just as Jake was backing out of the garage headed for work. Her own dad had left for work a couple of hours earlier. She knew that Jake didn’t usually go to an office, but directly to his customers’ locations, all over the state. He worked in some kind of sales, but every time he tried to explain it to her and Darby, they’d zone out, and start teasing him with, “WahWaaah, Wawawawaaah,” like Charlie Brown’s teacher. As she approached, he. How could he check that truck so quickly? How can they always know me by name, even though there is frequently a different person on duty? It's as though they're well aware that I'm coming. They all seem to be smart, and ... disciplined. Plus, those helmets have a faceplate that slides out of the top of the helmet. I've never seen a helmet that looks like those. The security officer always talks to me with the faceplate retracted, yet he or she invariably has it in place before he seems to just. "What is it?" It's a secret," Debbie said mysteriously. "We're not sure it will work out or not. We don't want to say until then." Fine, be that way!" Meagan huffed as she headed downstairs. "I'm too busy to worry about that anyway."While Meagan searched the Internet for information for her class, she heard noises of things being dragged across the floor, thuds, thumps, and even a few loud bangs."What the hell are they doing up there?" Meagan wondered. "Well, I've got to pee; maybe I can.