AUTHOR's POV

The walk home was taken with leisure and ease. No race to get back to get dinner ready and on the stove. No yelling parents to hurry home to - if you could call that place Anna's home.

Fortunately for Anna, both her parents were at a business lunch/golf thing with the vice president of Mr. Scott's advertisement agency. They wouldn't be back until dinner time and Anna would have the entire house all to herself until they got back. She could get loads of writing done with the five or six hours she had before her parents got back to the house. Anna could have complete peace...