Chapter 50

• BROKEN SECRETS
• Paige Aylsworth was a demure teen, given to wearing mid-length skirts and baggy sweaters and blouses. She wore her blonde hair up in a bun and hid her clear blue eyes behind large glasses. Almost painfully quiet, she seemed shy and had very few friends. The bulk of her time was spent in quiet, reading. Her blue-collar parents found her to be a little odd, totally different from her two rowdy brothers, but they were always busy with the antics of the two younger boys. “At least she’s not out raising hell with those ‘goth’ kids,” was her father’s response to her mother, Aileen when she asked him about it on the eve of Paige’s eighteenth birthday. Aileen shrugged and forgot her concerns as she raced to the living room where Jeff and Jeremy were practicing body-slamming the family cat in imitation of the wrestlers on television.
• “Paige!” Aileen called from the living room, “Pick up the phone, it’s for you!”