Her Mom

“Alice? Sweetie?”

Alice froze like a deer in headlights before grabbing her comforter and burying herself and her phone deep within the sheets.

“Come in!” Alice replied, allowing entrance into her room.

Sarah smiled, shyly stepping inside. “Me and your father are going to go out. We probably won’t be back until around 11:00. Are you okay staying home by yourself or do you want to come with?” Her mother asked gently, a smile spreading across her face.

“I’ll stay home. You two have fun on your date!” Alice teased, ignoring the bundle of nerves resting in her stomach.

“It’s not a date, Missy!” Sarah playfully reprimanded, prodding her daughter in the shoulder. She quickly got up from the cotton-draped four-poster. “Love you!”

“Love you too.”

Once her bedroom door closed shut as did the front door, she grasped her phone and held it to her face, skimming the messages from Mr. Wyndham.

You’ll have to enter from the back. The top left window, specifically. You’ll have to be there by 9:45, and make sure to wear the sexiest thing you can wrangle out of your closet.

Author’s Note: I encourage you all to write chapters! Even if you aren’t so sure about it, your effort will be appreciated. And besides, no one can be a worse writer than me!