When they started a few years ago she’d slip into my room and crawl into my bed, and I’d helplessly clutch her skinny, trembling body close as we listened to them hollering. I’d gotten good at distracting Caelyn from those. Still the late-night screaming matches she used to have with my drunk of a father were even more craptastic. Lately, Mom struggled to squeeze much of anything between all the extra shifts she took to cover the bills. Crystal desperately wants to win her share in order to help her mother afford the mortgage on the house they live in with her younger sister Caelyn.Įven though her mother is a surgical nurse at the local hospital, money has been tight ever since Crystal’s father left: The grand prize is three million dollars and even split five ways, it’s a serious amount of money. She and her five best friends are competing for the highest number of points that will allow all but one of them to continue to the state and then national championships. Crystal Donovan has already had to deal with a lot in her seventeen years, but right now her attention and efforts are laser-focused on the seemingly frivolous aim of making the team that will represent Vermont in the big MortalDusk video game competition.
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