Chapter 51 Lee
Lee
The days began to blur together. Lee took her meds. She fed the dog.
Late one night, Lee padded to the kitchen for water and found Flora, surrounded by papers, wearing headphones and taking notes on a YouTube video. “Flora, what are you doing?” Lee asked.
She slid her headphones off. “Homework,” she said.
“What’s that video?” Lee peered at the screen. “Confessions of a Yahoo Boy?”
Flora flushed, embarrassed but also defiant. “It’s for a school project. It’s none of your business, Auntie Lee.”
Lee felt helpless—was this really a school project, or was Flora the only one who still believed they would find Regan? How long could her sister’s absence go on? “It’s late. You should go to bed, Flora.”
“No,” said Flora, turning back to her computer. Lee didn’t know what to say. She filled a glass with water and left Flora to her whirring brain.