Erin couldn’t focus on anything other than Cassie’s presence. She might as well not be here for how much noise she wasn’t making, but Erin suffocated on the knowledge that they were under the same roof. She needed to say she was sorry. Because she was! And she could be the adult here—Cassie couldn’t mope in her room for the rest of break. That would be more suspicious than anything she and Erin had done so far. Erin would apologize and Cassie would get over it and they could move on. Sure, maybe her guilt factored into it, too. She hated the idea of Cassie hating her. It was like the phone
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