Chapter 23-1

It was a typical day. That was the worst part — she didn't see it coming. Neither did he. 10-year-old Marley Hoover was sat at the kitchen bar that morning right beside Jacobi Hoover eating their favourite — grilled cheese. At the time, Marley found nothing odd about eating grilled cheese for breakfast. Jacobi was always a picky eater, and Marley wanted to copy her older brother. She remembers how cluttered their eating space always was, having to lift their arms so they wouldn't knock anything off the table from mail to bills to random dishes to whatever their parents decided to throw on the counter that day. Marley keeps everything clean now. She only has to pick up after one other person. Do one person's laundry. Cook one person's meals when he asks. But at the time her mother had three people to look after, and she was always pushing the chores aside. Looking back now, Marley has no idea what her mother did all day. Go to work? St