Despite the fact that she was the only one who lived so far away, Laura was the first to arrive. Maybe she had been lurking in a tree and watching. She knocked on Raven's door at precisely 6:45 p.m. with deliberate timing: if this was some kind of trap intended to get petty revenge on her, Laura was going to upset it earlier than planned.
If it was honest, she wasn't so early that she'd be offensive. She hoped. She held the nondescript bag she had brought with her behind her back, wondering already if it was too much. It was probably too much. She should have gotten simple bags of candy or something like that, and ignored the stupid book. No normal girl read books for this kind of thing.