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A. If A was behind this, then at least Isaac’s mom would be a victim of A’s manipulative wrath instead of<br />
simply being a passive-aggressive ogre.<br />
As Mrs. Colbert let out a peal of laughter in the other room, Emily looked around the kitchen. Isaac’s<br />
mom<br />
collected cow stuff in the same way Emily’s mom collected chickens. They had the exact same<br />
refrigerator<br />
magnets of a thatched-roof French cottage, a tall-steepled church, and a boulangerie. Mrs. Colbert was<br />
a<br />
regular mom with a regular kitchen, just like Mrs. Fields. Maybe Emily was overreacting.<br />
Emily gathered the washed forks, spo<strong>on</strong>s, and knives and dried them <strong>on</strong> a dish towel, w<strong>on</strong>dering where<br />
the<br />
silverware drawer was. She tried the <strong>on</strong>e nearest the sink. A double-A battery rolled to the fr<strong>on</strong>t. There<br />
were<br />
scissors, scattered paper clips, a cow-print oven mitt, and a bunch of takeout menus held together by a<br />
purple<br />
rubber band. Emily started to close it, but a picture shoved to the back of the drawer caught her eye.<br />
She slid it forward. Isaac was standing in the family’s fr<strong>on</strong>t foyer, wearing the slightly oversize suit that<br />
bel<strong>on</strong>ged<br />
to his father. He had his arm around Emily, who was wearing a pink satin dress she’d swiped from<br />
Carolyn’s closet. This had been taken the week before when they were <strong>on</strong> their way to the Rosewood<br />
Day<br />
benefit. Mrs. Colbert had flitted around them, her cheeks pink, her eyes shining. “You two look so cute!”<br />
she’d crowed. She’d adjusted Emily’s corsage, reknotted Isaac’s tie, and then offered both of them<br />
freshbaked<br />
chocolate chip cookies.<br />
The photo told that happy story…except for <strong>on</strong>e thing. Emily no l<strong>on</strong>ger had a head. It had been cut out<br />
of<br />
the picture entirely, the scissors cleanly removing every last strand of her hair.<br />
Emily shut the drawer fast. She ran her fingers over her neck, then up her jaw, then around her ears,