Chapter 5I don’t know where the red light is coming from.
Is it a sun?
I don’t know, Jess.
But you see it, right? Emma?
“Hello! Earth to Jesse!”
Jesse blinked, snapping out of his memory. Or daydream. Or whatever the hell it was. He wasn’t the least bit surprised when Dominique met him in the hallway, bubbling over with questions. She had the tendency to do that any time he was gone for more than a few hours. Instead of explaining everything to her right there, he herded her into the parlor, where Michelle was reading while the television droned quietly.
“Shouldn’t you be in bed?”
“No. I’m not tired.”
They hadn’t planned it that way, but Dominique and Michelle had more or less taken over certain rooms in the house. They had three rooms upstairs—two bedrooms and another one that Mic
