MY FOOT STAYED on the big gate of the Del'torre's house. I’ve been there a few minutes but I can’t knock on the doorbell.

"C'mon Cherry, you can!" I barely whispered to myself to give myself courage.

At that point I bravely rang the doorbell and suddenly someone came to open the gate for me. But that's how I backed away when the man who opened the gate for me.

"Rex!" I pronounced. I immediately bowed my head to the floor.

"Come on in," he said coldly.

I didn't even look up at him and would have gone straight in when he stopped me. "Cherry, lets talk."

I closed my...