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to rain?—and the cold wind, which made me shiver despite my thin jacket. Nothing had been right since I had left Vegas. Nothing had been right since my mother had died.
    I cut that thought off. It still hurt too much to think of her. I missed her, yet I blame her. If she hadn’t died, I wouldn’t be stuck here, in a place I didn’t like, with people I didn’t like.
    Opening the lid of the box, I upended it over the railing. I watched as the wind caught the ashes before they settled on the surface of the water. Then, one by one, I tossed the carnations into the surf. There they drifted, waiting for the current to pick up and wash them out to sea.
    “Raena?” A tentative call broke into my thoughts. Tanis, of course. I sighed and turned, leaning my back against the pier railing. I didn’t answer, just continued to stare over the steely waters, lost in my own world.
    She tried again. “Raena?” No matter how many times I asked to be called by my nickname, she just didn’t listen. “Mom asked me to come find you. I had to search all over town before I thought to look here. You must be freezing!”
    I just shook my head. Genevra may be mother to Tanis, but not to me. She had been with Genevra and Shane for a long time. They were the only parents she remembered. I had a mother—at least, I used to.
    She misunderstood the shake of my head. “Well, you may not be cold, but I am! Come on, I brought the car. Let’s hurry up. I don’t know how you walked all the way out here in this weather.” She headed back down the pier, beckoning me to follow her.
    I rolled my eyes at her behind her back. It wasn’t all that cold, and we weren’t that far from our house. Tanis had just turned seventeen, a year older than me, and sometimes Genevra and Shane allowed her to borrow their late-model Tahoe. They didn’t drive it since they had bought their new one, but it ran well.
    She had been with them so long that they trusted her to take the car around town. I wondered whether they would ever trust me that much. I had considered asking them if they would help me get my license, but dismissed the idea. Who knew how long I would be there?
    Besides, I didn’t want to become like Tanis if I got my license. Since she had begun driving, she refused to walk anywhere. I loved to walk when the weather permitted. But now that I thought about it, having my license might come in handy on rainy days when I needed to escape my new “family.”
    “Where’d you park the car?” I asked.
    Tanis gave me an annoyed look. “At the park, of course. It’s a weekend. You think I’m going to pay for parking?”
    I didn’t see why she’d bothered to bring the car at all, when we lived less than a mile from the Village. I wondered whether she would just let me walk all the way home by myself. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t mind being with her, but today I didn’t want company. That’s why I had been out on the pier. Even though the pier scared me a little, it was still the best place to be alone with my thoughts.
    It might seem silly to be scared of a pier, but the thing just seemed so rickety. The boards creaked ominously under my feet as I walked, and I thought they were placed too far apart. I was convinced that if there were a good strong earthquake, the whole structure would collapse, taking the fishermen and the restaurant with it. I had been assured many times of its soundness. Since I had no knowledge whatsoever of construction, I had to believe it.
    Still, the end of the pier had been choice real estate when I wanted to be alone. Now that Tanis had found my hiding spot, I might have to find another.
    I slowed as we walked towards the Village. I glanced up the stairs leading to the coffee shop longingly, mentally calculating how much money I had in my wallet. Should I ask her if we could stop?
    I decided it wouldn’t be a good idea. No reason to give her yet another place to find me. She wouldn’t approve of it anyway. Just the fact that it