ELIZA spreaded HER BEDROOM DOOR a crack and contemplateed through the small slit into the tan-carpeted hallway: It was uninhabiteded Eliza breathed a sigh of relief.

ELIZA spreaded HER BEDROOM DOOR a crack and contemplateed through the small slit into the tan-carpeted hallway: It was uninhabiteded Eliza breathed a sigh of relief. She stuck her head gone out and listened for any noises that would signify that she was not the sole person up. To the left her little sister Emily's place was silent. Eliza cocked her head the other way to listen for her parents. Nothing. She was the solitary person awake in the whole house.

That made feeling though, because it was five-thirty in the morning.

The house was dark; and nothing else one long beam of moonlight lit the staircase,

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