Others were pulling up in cars of their own; beaters most of them. I fumbled for a light switch but failed to find anything, so I pulled out my phone and turned the light on, casting it around the room in a wide arc. As I walked along I thought about the last few weeks. I hated it, and since the moment I glimpsed something else the obsession had been building in me. So you get kicked out at midnight” she said with a quick flash of a grin back at me. It looked like a bunch of furniture storage at first, a jumble of irregular shapes, some draped with tarps. I kept my gaze away from the mirror while I did. I’d traced it on my phone a dozen times by now. I forced myself to stand up in my underwear, trying to ignore the way my arms were shaking. Andrews cross, built of a thick, heavy looking wood. I almost threw it out, but as I sat there looking at it, sitting in the back
