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No one noticed the vial. As soon as Ella got back to her parents’ house, she went up to her room--which was on the second floor now, not the attic--and promptly took it out and hid it. She was expecting a phone call from Bart to explain what it was and what she was supposed to do with it, but she didn’t even know for sure that it was Bart who had handed it to her. She sat through an uncomfortable dinner with her father, stepmother, Anna, Drew, and Henry where hardly anyone said a word, and her stepsisters spent most of the time sobbing, as if they had lost their best friend. If they had any idea what Tim truly thought of them, perhaps they wouldn’t be so teary eyed. Ella said next to nothing, though. A few times, Teressa almost slipped up and said something rude to her about how she was e