Bone by Bone by Kay Sanjida

Author:Kay, Sanjida [Kay, Sanjida]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2016-01-26T17:00:16+00:00

FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER

LAURA

Half past three and she had still not reached the school. She took deep breaths to try and calm herself. She reminded herself she was only a few minutes away. It would be okay.

Laura had been working at a new garden in Frenchay. Barney hadn’t let her leave on time and now she was late and the traffic was awful. Normally it was bad at this time of day as people were picking their kids up from school, but today was worse than usual. She was stuck on a particularly busy and narrow part of Frenchay Road. The traffic was at a standstill.

Her mobile, lying on the passenger seat, vibrated and she saw there was a text from Lucy. She snatched up the phone and read it quickly, before the cars could start moving again.

Hi hun, I’m in Canada, filming. Be back in a fortnight. Tagging on a few days in Toronto. Hope u ok. L xxx

Of course, she remembered now. Lucy was making a documentary about dancers, some kind of reality show hybridized with The X-Factor. It was part-funded by the Canadian Film Board and so they had to include some contestants from Vancouver. She’d forgotten that Lucy was taking a few days off afterwards. How like Lucy to remind her so kindly and so subtly.

Laura dropped the phone back on the seat and wiped her clammy hands on her jeans. She gripped the steering wheel.

What on earth is going on?

The cars in front of her started to inch slowly forward and then move onto the opposite side of the road. A silver Audi was stationary in the middle of her lane and cars travelling in both directions were trying to navigate around it. The car hadn’t been hit. And then she saw a small group of people on the sliver of pavement next to the Audi. A man – maybe the driver – was bending over a woman who was lying on the pavement and giving her mouth to mouth. The accident must only just have happened, she thought, because there were no police and the ambulance hadn’t arrived.

As Laura approached, she saw the woman more clearly. She was young, wearing a short denim skirt and no tights. Her smooth legs were askew, splayed out from each other at an odd angle. Her hands, lying so still on her lap, had short fingernails painted bright blue. She couldn’t see any blood. Laura shuddered. She wondered if she should stop, but there were other people there, standing around, watching the man giving the woman the kiss of life. Surely one of them would have called the emergency services? In any case, she was late to fetch Autumn, she couldn’t pull over. It was exactly accidents like this that reinforced her belief cars were hazardous, she thought, trying not to dwell on the girl who’d been hit. It was why she’d been so relieved when she’d discovered that Autumn didn’t need to walk along the road to school if they cut through the nature reserve.

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