Aww. D: Don't feel like a terrible person! I want them to get away with it, too. And I need to read In Cold Blood, still.

Also: It took me like four readings to notice it, so obviously it is very minor and maybe you did it on purpose in the first place, but in the scene where Nathaniel comes in with the gun, you use like a bird's egg twice. In both cases it's very vivid, but I don't know if the repeat was intentional or not. :3