As the yellow cab came to a halt in front of the gate, Everly stepped out from the backseat of the cab after slipping a wad of cash into the taxi driver's hand, moving on to continue the rest of the journey to the house with her legs.
She was beginning to form the habit of walking to the house from the gate on foot, seeing it as an opportunity to compose herself and breathe one more last air of freshness before she gets engulfed by the air of toxicity that flows in the house.
The living room was quiet when she got into the house, there was nobody sitting on the sofa waiting for her line the previous day, she knew Allison was probably in the kitchen preparing lunch as it was already mid afternoon and Ethan was probably back in his house or running errands with Leo.