#573 A More Serene Girl- Maxine Clair
A horrible thing happened to Dorla: she witnessed her Father killing her Mother. She doesn’t talk to anybody at school, but Irene reaches out and tries to walk with her after school, but she is too shy. Irene’s new best friend is Geraldine, they do walk together after school and often go to Geraldine’s apartment.
The apartment is in a “Tourist Home” a rent-by-the-hour type of place. She lives with her mother in a basement kitchenette, and isn’t allowed to wander into the business side of the house. But kids being kids, the two girls go exploring and peep into the keyholes looking for things they don’t know about.
In a shocking turn, Irene sees her mother in one of the rooms with somebody that isn’t her father. She doesn’t tell Geraldine, doesn’t confront her mother, and gets physically ill due to shock. Her life will never be the same. She no longer wants to be friends with Dorla. Seeing the horrible things that adults do to each other first hand, she wants to stay as far away from that as possible.
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