In spite of the certain knowledge she’d locked it, Karen heard the door open. Now feeling angrier than ever, she felt a particular bristle of irritation roll up her spine when the boy said, “Well, let’s see if we can fix that, huh?”
Who was this? Karen felt a bit too petty right now to get up to take a look at him, but she still couldn’t place the voice. Maybe it was one of her more distant cousins or something.
In either case, the girl spit out from where she hid under her blanket, “Just leave me alone, I just want to go to sleep.”