Time: 07:50. Location: White Lily Avenue, Mayers house.
13 days until the honey festival.
James lingers in the bathroom.
Veronica is distracted looking at her nails, until she notices Mandy watching her too closely. The girl raises an eyebrow in the woman's direction and asks:
"What?"
The secretary needs a few seconds to gather her courage and pronounce the doubt:
"What are you...?"
Mandy's eyes are unable to look at the sweet façade any longer, and instead face directly at the shadowy figure hiding inside. Veronica admits that it feels... Different, and even liberating, to talk to a person who recognizes her worst side.
"I'm just a girl" Veronica replies.
"Does your father know that side of you?"
"No" The girl answers hastily, and for the first time her eyes look uneasy. "That would be the end of me"
