Chapter 13
With their bags all packed in “Minnie”, Annemarie did a final sweep of her parents’ house for anything she might’ve missed. When she didn’t find anything, she joined her mother at the snack bar, leaning against it to watch Gabe and Robert make complete fools of themselves with Cody and the twins in the monstrous fort they’d built in the living room yesterday.
Friday night’s rain had changed to snow overnight, and over the course of Saturday, the weather system had deposited a sloppy two inches of slushy white all over. Fishing and every other outdoor activity Cody had on his list had been scratched off, much to his disappointment, but just when Annemarie had opened her mouth to scold him for being obstinate, Gabe had stepped in with the fort idea.
If the squeals of laughter w
