The Flowers in the Attic Series: The Dollangangers: Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and a New Excerpt! (213 page)

“It takes only one foolish time,” Papa warned me. “You go a little bit farther and farther out on this weak branch until it snaps and drops you in one pool of muck. That’s what teenagers frolicking in sex do, swim in muck.”

Although he didn’t add them, I could hear the words,
Just ask your sister.

“Norton,
s’il vous plaît
,” Mama pleaded.

He gave me one more look of warning and returned to his breakfast.

I had yet to bring a boy home to meet my parents because I was terrified of how Papa would make him feel. It would surely be like a CIA interrogation. I once told Chastity that my father would probably waterboard any boy I had been out with more than once, let alone twice.

And all because of Roxy!

Under these circumstances, who wouldn’t expect me to be more and more interested in whom and what she had turned out to be? I had every reason to hate her. Look how she was affecting my life. She was like someone who had died but wouldn’t stay buried. She could be thousands of miles away and not only blocks away, but it wouldn’t matter. Papa would always look past whatever I had done to see if Roxy had a hand in it, if her influence was in my blood. There were many nights when I raged to myself about it. I wouldn’t dare rage at Papa, but I could mutter and think my protest aloud when I was alone.

If you’re going to forget her, Papa, forget her. Don’t keep looking in me to find her! And don’t dare deny that you do!

I even imagined his guilty, remorseful face, but none of this fantasizing really helped to make it easier.

I would look out my bedroom window at the street below, especially whenever I had these thoughts. I could see the corner from where I stood. I knew Roxy was just a little north of us.

“Why didn’t you go farther away?” I whispered. “Did you stay here just to spite Papa? Or did you stay close because you were so sorry and really do miss us?

“I’m going to know the answers to all my questions about you, Roxy. I swear.

“I’m going to force you to look at me. And I’m going to make you do what I have done too often because of you.

“I’m going to make you cry.”

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