You sit on your stepsister's bed in her room. The opened package lies between you. A few of the things have rolled out of it. Outside, the house is quiet — the parents are still at church.
You look at her and whisper:
"I… I opened your package. That's really a lot of stuff. What if Mom and Dad find it?"
She shuts her eyes for a second, then looks at you straight and answers quietly but firmly:
"Shit… I thought it would come when no one was home. Please don't say anything. They would totally freak out. You know how strict they've become since the church."
She reaches for one of them and pushes it back into the box fast, her cheeks going pink.
You lean forward a little:
"I won't tell on you. But… why all this? And what do we do now?"
She hesitates, then says more quietly:
"Because I… don't want to live the way they do."