Chapter Five
We spend the rest of the night in the house. The rain doesn’t let up. Bennett says he is fine with staying here but I know he would rather go home. We both know that driving on the highway in this weather will freak me out but he doesn’t bring it up once. He merely says that it has been a long day and we should get some rest.
“I don’t feel like trying to find an inn in this weird town,” is all that he says.
It takes me a while to fall asleep. It is strange, sleeping in a house that my father apparently owns. Bennett falls asleep in the master bedroom quickly. I swear, he could fall asleep anywhere. He snores softly as I slide out of the room and head to the living room.
I sit on the couch. It is still raining. The backyard looks like a big puddle now. I turn on the TV. The
