i came today , and she was dead . `` well look who decided to join the party . it was nearly nine in the evening , but it might as well have been midday . it is time we be leaving , boys . i felt his hand on my hair . `` the likes of- '' what the hell had happened to this place in a few short months ? she backed toward the closest pool of fluorescent light . our parents died when i was fifteen and grace was nineteen . this was third wheel territory , without question . 