" Tucker told them."We know, Marnie locked up your house before they left so we couldn't leave them inside." Gina said after putting them in our fridg...e next to RaeAnn's dessert.Tucker searched his pockets for his keys and decided they were locked in the house."Once they get back we'll help bring the stuff over. I don't have my keys."We pulled a football out of the deck bin we had just moved back onto the deck and the 4 of us guys passed the ball around waiting for my wife and Marnie to. He saw her smile stop short of the point that the drink used to bring to her face when the man who’d first made it for her had been alive to do so. Troy understood why, and accepted it.Since his parents and Propappou had died, there had been certain foods that Troy occasionally missed, but couldn’t bring himself to order in restaurants, attempt at home, or ask Julie if she would make for him; because no one would ever get them right again. Someone could certainly make pancakes with Bisquick and. Dad grabbed my arm and led me to our car. Mom sat in the back seat withme while Dad and my brother sat up front. As much as I hated my Mom forwhat they were doing to me, it was nice to have someone to comfort me.She let me lay on her shoulder the whole ride home, reassuring me thateverything would be fine and that I really had nothing to worry about.Once we arrived home I went to run up the stairs so that I could hidefrom everyone and everything, but my brother quickly got in my way. Janie’s sensible high collared blouse hung on the back of Will’s big office chair. Her bustier was carefully and gently folded and set on a shelf out of harm’s way (Bella had been delighted when she’d first seen it, immediately asking where Janie had gotten such a treasure). One of Janie’s stockings was ruined, covered in patches of black, hanging precariously from the ship’s wheel mounted on the wall of Will’s office. Bella’s petticoat was also ruined, but Janie was holding that.They’d knocked.