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"Right, sorry. Do you know where Karen
Stoker is right now?" he asked sharply.
"No," I said. I told myself it wasn't a lie. I knew
where she was before we left the house, but I didn't
know where she was at that moment. Maybe she had left the attic. Maybe she was outside. Maybe she was
in my room.
"Did she tell you she was thinking of doing this
terrible thing?"
"Oh, no." Again, that was no lie. She hadn't
ever said anything about killing her stepfather. "We've heard she was upset about her mother
marrying Mr. Pearson, and we know she never wanted
him to adopt her, but did you ever witness anything in
their home that would upset her enough to do this?"
Detective Simon asked.
"I didn't witness anything that would give me
such an idea, no."
"You never saw them argue?"
"I never saw Karen and Mr. Pearson argue
when I was in the house."
"Did you see them argue anywhere else?"
Lieutenant Cooper asked with a deep sigh of
annoyance.
I shrugged. "They didn't argue so much, but
Karen was upset with things he said when she was at
the drugstore sometimes."
"According to her mother," Detective Simon
said, some frustration in his voice, "you were with her
more than she was."
"I don't know how that could be true. We rode
the school bus together back and forth. We were
