“My kids live in those rooms,” I said.

“I only need to measure the outside walls,” Arthur said, climbing the stairs two at a time.

Arthur took thirty-four separate measurements on his grid paper and went out the front door at eleven.

Lily sat at the Formica kitchen table with her math homework open to page forty.

She was chewing the inside of her cheek until the skin by her jaw went dark red.

“Are we going to have to move?” she asked.