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⊰♚ ⊱—; “Can we do that? Go into town quietly, won’t they tell us off?” Lizzy doubts that either of them could make wine, so town it would have to be. Perhaps they could throw out the wine bottle and get a new one upon their next visit, would Alexis notice by then or not?

“Okay… Um…”

“Paula?!” A yell travels with her hasty searchings. 

_{“I’ll also buy you a new dress, toys and shoes. We can use this as an excuse.” Or rather, was he using this as an excuse to buy her more presents? Who knew. It’d be nice to hang out with her without having their parents or Paula around (since she’d be busy) either way.}  

_{“We should get going, I don’t know when dad will want to drink this. Maybe we should also ask for Paula to distract him?” It wasn’t his father that he feared. It was their mother. If he got upset, she would get mad.}