For Nevermore Season 1

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    Before she was even halfway across the street, Noella could hear Jen squeal, “I think I got the job! They just called from the office 15 minutes ago. They want me to come in for an interview, but my friend Lily says I’m a shoo-in. I’m heading over there right now. I was gonna take Tori with me, but it would probably look better if I didn’t show up with my kid, ya know? Do you think there’s any way you could watch her, just until I get back? It shouldn't be too long.”
    “Sure!” Noella said, certain Josie wouldn’t mind, and thinking she might even be glad to have the house to herself for a bit, just like Noella was grateful for the distraction.
    “Thanks Noella!” Jen said. “I’ve barely started living here and I’m already wondering what I would do without you.” She reached over to hug Noella, just as the passenger door flew open and Tori spilled from the truck screaming, “YAY!!!”
    Tori ran to Noella and threw her arms around her waist, yelling, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
    Jen said, “She’s supposed to be home with a sore throat, but she seems to have made a miraculous recovery!”
    Tori wrinkled her nose at her mom, “It is sore!” she said in an exaggerated raspiness. “Didn’t you have school today, Noella?”
    “No, I had a doctor’s appointment.”
    “You’re sick, too?”
    “No,” Noella said smiling, wondering how much Jen would trust her if she told her the truth, that she was visiting her shrink because she was crazy and prone to psychotic breaks. “Just give me a minute and I’ll be right back. I have to make sure it’s okay with my aunt.”
    “Of course,” Jen said, “and thanks again.”
    Noella returned in less than two minutes, with a yes. Jen said thanks one more time, then climbed into her truck and pulled from the driveway as Tori unlocked the front door and they went inside the house, Tori holding her iPad.
    “So you have an iPad?” Noella said, half impressed and half jealous. She would have loved an iPad, mostly for reading, though other stuff would have been fun, too. She had a Kindle, but it was the old black and white one and approximately five percent as cool as an iPad, or the new Kindle Fire, which let you do everything from web browsing to playing games to watching movies.
    “Yeah,” Tori nodded, “my mom got it for me when she told me we were going to have to move again. She figured it would make me like Aurora Falls more, or at least hate it less.”
    “Is it working?”
    Tori laughed. “Yeah, but it’s not as fun as you.” She smiled, and Noella felt a pleasant warmth settle inside her heart.
    Noella put her arm around Tori. “So, do you have any cool games on there?”
    Tori nodded. “I got a bunch of free ones, but mostly I play Angry Birds. Mom also let me set up a Facebook account a few days ago and I did that. But it’s sorta boring since I don’t have any friends other than my mom.”
    Tori’s eyes went bright and she looked up at Noella. “Hey, will you friend me on Facebook? That would be really cool.”
    Noella’s first thought was that she was on total blackout and wouldn’t be able to do much of anything with Facebook or anything else, but she couldn’t find a legitimate reason not to friend Tori.
    “Sure,” she said, holding her hand out for Tori’s iPad. Tori slipped the tablet in her open palm and Noella held it, enjoying the weight in her hand and running her fingers across the front of its smooth glass. The iPad was substantial but surprisingly light. Noella had never held one before, though she’d always been curious, and went from wanting one to craving one at a single touch.
    She tapped the icon for the Facebook app, then signed into her account for the first time in what felt like forever, and saw about a million new messages from Sam. Apparently, he wanted Noella to call him.
    “What’s wrong?” Tori asked, seeing the look on Noella’s face.
    “It’s Sam,” she said. “He wants to talk. We’ve barely spoken, and he thinks I’m mad at him. He left me like a hundred million messages on Facebook.”
    “Are you? Mad at him I mean?”
    “Yes, or at least I was. But I don’t want to be. I just want everything to be like it was. I miss him. A lot. But Randy won’t let me use the phone and the few chances I had to call Sam, I chickened out. So I’m pretty sure things are going to stay weird for a while.”
    Noella friended Tori and signed out of her account, then handed the