All Chapters of Close to You: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

“Wow… that is… what’s the word?”“Ugly? Yes, I’ve given it some thought, and I’m gonna go with ‘ugly.'”Liam took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. “I think it has character.”“Yeah… of a haunted house in a Shirley Jackson Novel,” his older sister Cat joked, eliciting a chuckle from Leanne, thei

             His first day in the house went by without incident. The movers came in, did their thing without breaking anything, then his sisters and Mike, Leanne’s husband, came by to help him unpack what he needed to survive the next couple of days. Cat attempted to open the locked door in the kitchen again, but failed and swore that she would get it to open even if it killed her. While the four of them dined on pizza, Leanne asked if he wanted to spend the night at their place, but he declined and insisted that he wanted to sleep in his own bed. His sisters organized and set up his bedroom and master bathroom, while he and Mike pushed and pulled the furniture to where they were supposed to go. By ten o’clock, the three of them pleaded exhaustion and went home. As soon as they were gone, Liam took a shower, brush