February in Stone Creek continues, On Concrete Shelves....
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Cassie Lakhani opens up an envelope addressed to her and moves over to the kitchen counter, she sits upon a stool and fishes out the postcard from inside and smiles. Immediately she knows that it’s from her twin brother, Callum. It has been weeks since she last heard from him -- Cassie has become worried he would get into some sort of trouble, but trusts her brother enough to know he is finally growing as a person. She reads it over in her mind and imagines that she is there, by his side.
With Lucian asleep in his bed, she finally has the time to relax. Although school hasn’t started yet Cassie has already prepared herself from the busy schedule she is about the venture into. The kitchen is breezy with the windows open and she can feel the cold chill of the winter snow storm brewing outside and like every other resident in Stone Creek, she knows it’ll be a terrible storm.
She also knows that whoever attempts to make the trip to the Lakeside Inn later this month will most definitely be trapped for the night. So she had already asked Clifton if they could skip out on the ball and just stay home with Lucian. Which he was very happy to do.
There wasn’t much that Cassie was sure of. At times she was sure that her life was going to be so simple and adventurous -- and sometimes, when she is alone at night watching the stars from the backyard of Clifton’s home, she imagines the star she could have been. Cassie thought she was sure her father was a good man, but now she knows how wrong she was. A half smile emerges onto her otherwise softened face and she places the postcard on the refrigerator door so that everyone can see that her brother had found himself in sunny California.
Her raven black hair is pulled back into a ponytail, and earlier although she wouldn’t admit it to Clifton she found one of his old shirts and wore it while she cleaned the kitchen and bathroom so she wouldn’t get any of her clothes dirty. Cassie knows that even if she had asked him, Clifton wouldn't mind. She is just more comfortable with him not knowing about the shirt. There is just a boundary she isn’t ready to cross by acknowledging his opinion on the shirt situation.
Before Cassie can delve any further into an explanation with herself her phone began to ring and she makes her way into the living room where she last left the cellphone. Immediately after picking it up she knows it’s Mac Kern’s number and her mind gets stuck in a cluster of individual thoughts about both men; Clifton Briggs and Mac Kern.
