33 Apocalypse Ave, Friday Evening

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All the lights were on in the house, chasing away the settling dusk. It made the house look warm and homey, a golden glow pouring out of every window. For the first time since she'd arrived back on Fandom, Kathy felt like she wanted to cook, just bibimbap, simple and easy, but delicious and easy and friendly. Spices scented the air, smelling like home.

A nice place to come and visit, perhaps.

[Open for visitors! And also visitors of visitors.]

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Any other time, Eva would have been impossible to overlook. But right now, Kathy only had eyes for her sister. Ignoring the food on the stove, she stumbled forward on unsteady feet, moving faster and faster until she was sweeping her sister up into a hug so tight that neither of them could breathe.

Neither of them let go, either.

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But the hug meant that Eva could slip past them without disturbing them at all. She padded up the stairs quietly, her bare feet pressing against the carpet with each step.

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Neither sister noticed.

"Don't look like that," Sarah was complaining. "You get the best sister ever for a whole extra weekend! Where are the balloons, the streamers, the rainbow cake, huh? You're not allowed to cry, not for this whole weekend. It's a rule."

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"Why are people constantly making up rules about what I get to do with my face?" Kathy demanded, struggling to hold back the tears that desperately wanted to fall. "It's my face!"

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"Yeah, but it's super-good at making everybody feel bad," Sarah assured her, wiping away the tears that she couldn't really fight off, either. "If I had your puppy eyes, we probably could actually have gotten a puppy like you always wanted!"

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"You're such a brat," Kathy said with a watery laugh. "I can't believe you're here." She pulled Sarah in again, not that she'd ever really had a chance to go anywhere else. "I've missed you so much these past two years."

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"Uh, rude," Sarah said. "Cause, like, I've been dead for three."

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Kathy didn't laugh or sputter apologies, both reactions that Sarah had been expecting. Instead she shook her head. "I know," she murmured, looking at her with those Kathy-patented big, sad eyes. "I was dead for one."

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This time it was Sarah who did the sputtering. "What? How?! And, like, how again?! You're alive! You called me! So how...?!"

She shook her head, braids flying. "Man, I can't believe Dante's mom let me think you were gone for, like, five minute or something! Not a year!"

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"Wait," Kathy said. "Dante's mom is here?"

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"Tall beautiful lady with long red hair?" Sarah asked. "Yeah, we walked here together. I think she went to go find Dante."

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"I need to see her," Kathy gasped, grabbing Sarah's hand. "C'mon slowpoke!"