Ezra:
My phone lit up the room. I hadn't realized how late it was until I had picked the phone up and caught the time. A text message from Mikhail. They knew. I sat there looking at it for a while without knowing how to respond.
Audrey had been very serious when she had told me that I needed to watch myself around them. She had painted a graphic picture about Rip not being a nice person. About Mikhail being the big brother that loved his sister too much for his own good. I see the way they are with each other. To me, it seems like they're just looking out for one another. Maybe some people feel threatened by a bond like that, but the tone had unnerved me.
The little pebble made me flinch back before it hit me in the face. I fell off the sill. I stood up picking the pebble up
