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Chapter 17: Elodie

By some miracle I held it together through dinner. Dad didn't seem to catch on to all the lies I was spouting, so clearly I deserved an Oscar for my performance. Bully for me. I even managed to scarf down three slices of pizza, though the meaty, cheesy goodness sat like lead in my stomach. He'd have noticed if my appetite had changed. And while I could have blamed it on Rich and what I'd seen, I knew he'd pay more attention if I did. So I stuck to the everything's fine, everything's normal routine until I got upstairs to my room. Then I promptly shut and locked the door, went into the bathroom, turned on the shower to mask the noise, and lost my dinner.