Cemetery Girl (9781101544969) by Bell David

Author:Bell, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 2011-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

I returned home just before nine o’clock. Ryan and Abby were in the kitchen. They sat at the table, sipping coffee. I carried the bouquet.

“I found these,” I said. “At the cemetery.”

They didn’t say anything, but I could tell they didn’t get it.

“At Caitlin’s headstone,” I said. “There’s a note. Somebody left a note for her.”

Ryan came out of his chair.

“Put it down,” he said. “Put it down.”

I laid it on the counter.

“Did you touch the note?” he asked.

“No. It’s still there.”

He put his glasses on and read the note. “Do you know the handwriting?” he asked.

“No.”

“Abby,” Ryan said, “will you get me a ziplock bag, one of the large ones for the freezer?”

Ryan carefully picked the note up by its corners, his fat, sausagey fingers looking almost delicate, and dropped it into the bag Abby was holding open. He sealed it with a quick motion of his thumb. “It’s unlikely there will be any prints, but we can try.”

“Who is that note for?” Abby asked “Is it for her? Or us?”

“It might be a joke,” Ryan said. “Some sort of hoax.”

“I don’t think so,” I said. “Earlier, when Caitlin was asleep, I looked in on her. She was saying something in her sleep. She said, ‘Don’t send me back. Don’t send me back.’ At first I thought she was talking about us, that she thought we were going to send her back to wherever she came from. But the way she said it . . . I don’t know.”

“Let’s not jump to any conclusions,” Ryan said. “I’m going to take this with me. And I’ll call as soon as I hear anything. Just hang in there.”

“I guess we know all about that,” Abby said.

“Ryan,” I said. “My brother, Buster.”

“Abby mentioned—”

“He was here, right before. I think . . .”

I didn’t know what I thought. Not really.

“We’re looking into everything,” he said. “But no promises, no guarantees.”

And that’s the way he left us, waiting for our daughter again.

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