...pages, Rachel saw a world of gray The smooth gray tile of her kitchen floor, the gray of the walls, the windowpanes, the bland chairs. Gray curtains bordered the windows. Through the dirty glass smudged with water droplets Rachel saw more gray--the sky, thick with rain and smog, the skeletal trees, the snow from that morning that had turned into unpleasant slush. Gray.

Rachel sighed, lost in her thoughts. She was alone in the house, and her breath seemed to echo off the walls. She was alone more and more these days, since the divorce had taken over both her parents' lives. In fact, she probably wouldn't be in this house much longer--her mother was moving to New York City and buying an apartment, while her father was selling their current home and buying a smaller, more boring one in downtown Durham.

Rachel and her younger brother, Grayson, were going to live with their father and then every month visit New York, where their mother would be living. It would be a lot of money, and Gary, Rachel's father, would have to work another job to pay for it.

"It won't be far, Rach," Rachel's mother had said. "A two-hour plane flight, sweetie, and three...

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