The room seemed to have seized. Nothing moved, no one spoke. I frowned as I turned to the woman who just waltzed into the house uninvited.
"What are you doing, Gwen?" I asked as I followed her in. I took hold of her arm, stopping her walk abruptly and turned her to look at me. "This isn't your house that you can badge in uninvited!"
Gwen raised an eyebrow at me before she broke into a laugh. Her laugh was so annoying! She shook my hand off and looked around the room. "Really? Not my house?" She walked to the table where the boys were still standing, each with a shocked face. Getting there she took my seat and reached for the glass of wine I had poured for myself. "Honey, I was the one who chose this house. I was the one who decorated it." She looked around, gave a small shrug, "nothing
