’ Jessica said with a flash of inspiration. ‘There’s nothing wrong at all, we’re just tired.’ Then she winced. She had forgotten that Ronnie...had been wearing a skirt, Casey would surely realize she was lying. ‘Oh okay, I was afraid I’d interrupted some weird ritual again,’ he said in relief. He had once come into the apartment Veronica shared with her brother without knocking and had interrupted a séance she had been attempting. Veronica had sworn that he had ruined it, and had only recently. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. All weekends and holidaysincluded." Of course. I understand." You will have to change your name to Constance Virginia Jacobsofficially. I will require you to tear up all of your oldidentification." Thank you, Mrs. Jacobs. Of course." You will need to leave your family and cut off all contact with them." I... oh..." I said in a hushed voice."That's right. You'll never be able to see your father, brother, auntsor uncles or your mother ever again." Oh my. "Anybody would like" I replied, "how long do you think you will be, I mean, when will you be home?"Sue thought about it for a bit and answered, "I don't know. As long as it takes, I don't want to set a time Jess."With that we both left for work. After lunch I was dying to know if something was going on, so I made an excuse at work and offered to drop some papers off at a customer across town. Remembering where the party was located, I headed straight there and drove by seeing a couple of cars I. Why was she going along with Emily on this?"I'm thinking of inviting Don to come to Ridgeline this next weekend." Emily's head shot up, causing her to stare right at me. I smiled at her, and she lowered her head again. "He'll probably be sleeping in our room, Joyce. I don't want any of you other girls bothering him this weekend." As soon as I said that Don would be sleeping in our room, Joyce's face flushed, and she moved a little bit away from Emily. I wanted her to see that Emily didn't.