Brother & sister's game spiraling out of control.

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I had changed into jeans and a T shirt, and padding quietly into the kitchen poured some coffee and sat down across from Rachel.

She was still in her red nightgown, barefoot, reading the paper. It was a radiantly sunny day, and the light shone in through the kitchen window over her shoulder as she looked up and smiled, before turning to her paper again.

I interrupted the silence with, "Can I have some?"

"Huh." She looked up.

I flushed with her eyes suddenly on me.

"The paper."

She handed me a random stack that lay beside what she was reading....