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Sneaking Around
Hearing familiar voices coming from the apartment, Cadence decided not to knock and wasn’t surprised when she was able to open the door. Brandon and Cassidy were sitting on the sofa while Tara, Dax, and Lucy were sitting on the loveseat and chair respectively, a couple of pizzas on the coffee table. The teens didn’t even end their conversation as she walked in, though it didn’t matter since Cadence had no idea what they were talking about. Something about birds, blindfolds, and a river. “Hey, Cass, Mom wants you home soon, so can I interrupt?”
“Sorry,” her sister said, as Dax finished his sentence, and no one jumped in with another comment, at least not while Cadence was asking for quiet. “What is it?”
Cassidy didn’t seem agitated, just preoccupied. Cadence dropped down to the armrest near her, though she’d be speaking across Brandon. She glanced around at the others and decided it wasn’t anything
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