No package.

She did not come to the house, and she has not come since, and I have stopped waiting for it in the way you eventually stop flinching at a sound.

Chelsea signed for the boutique in January.

Sandra’s Bridal is legally Chelsea’s now, though the sign still says Sandra’s, because my sister is a businesswoman and that name is worth money in three counties and she is not sentimental about signage.

Sandra sees Micah four times a year, at Chelsea’s house, with Chelsea in the room.

That was the arrangement my sister wrote herself, and she wrote it tighter than our mother’s lawyer had proposed, and our mother signed it without one word of negotiation — which told Chelsea, she said afterward, everything she needed to know about what the shop had actually been for.