Down the hall, Tessa called for me to come see the stars from her window.

I went immediately.

PART 24

September was harder than I expected.

The newspapers had stopped calling.

The court dates no longer filled every week.

Yet Tessa began having nightmares just as the rest of us were starting to settle into the new house.

One morning she refused to go to school because a substitute teacher had announced a surprise activity the day before.