Instead, wonder what she'll think when she sees the house. The facade has morphed since the night Chloe brought you home."This can't be right," Esme s...ys when you're both standing inside, looking down the hall that still has all those doors and the grand staircase.Don't even try to explain. How could anyone believe in a house that is so much more than a house? Its actuality is something that even you still don't understand, even though Pandora explained about this place, how the house is an. .." Naw. I think it's a good time to lay low for a while. I might take a couple of pictures of Goldie but I'll have to hold on to them until I find another darkroom and get some new equipment. Mr. McPherson said he'd help but I'm hoping to go to art school this fall, so I need to save my money."Bud tucked the envelope under his shirt. "Well, I guess you're right. Anyway, I gotta go." He turned toward the door. "Oh yeah, my old man wants me to ask you to Sunday dinner." What?" Of all the things. This was not the first time something has interrupted our mating dance. Damn it, if I ever find out who the litter bug is, I'll kick ass.This all started more than 18 years ago. My father was outside, on the surface, looking for minerals when this light fell from the sky. He was just bending over to look at a rock and this thing whizzed over his head and fell in front of him. He was lucky it never hit him or he would have been flattened. He had always told everyone about the times he had seen. Work went well for the next two weeks, although Carol often sensed Duncan's eyes being on her bottom and she was correct to do so. There was a little bit of very mild flirting between the two of them but the lunchtime conversation was never directly mentioned.Duncan, who lived alone, wanked most nights thinking about Carol and he resolved to have one more attempt at getting her towards sharing a bed with him although he knew that it might force her to resign from her job. He did not want to.