If You See Me by Audra McElyea

Author:Audra McElyea [Audra McElyea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Counterplay Press
Published: 2023-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Sarah

Present

Ode to Joy plays over the doorbell speakers in my house as I’m getting fresh, bleach-scented, white sheets put back on my bed. I look out my bedroom window to the driveway but see no cars. It must be a solicitor or something, they’ll probably give up in a minute and go away if I just stay back here.

I sneak to the living room where I can get a better look out the main window by the front door, and they push the doorbell again. The letter I don’t want anyone to see lies on my coffee table, so I tuck it inside the drawer just in case someone comes in.

When I peek outside the closed blinds, I see a nicely dressed blonde woman with her back turned to me as the hymn continues to blare throughout the house. When I first moved in, I found it difficult to be in a bad or sad mood with that happy song playing any time someone popped by, but now I find the perkiness of it extremely irritating. Especially when I don’t want to be bothered.

The blonde woman doesn’t strike me as a door-to-door salesperson, so I decide to suck it up and see what she wants. Maybe it’s just a neighbor who needs help with something. God, I’ll do just about anything to get her to go away and shut that doorbell up.

The aged floorboards creak under my step as I stride toward the front door to get rid of the woman, and I clear my throat while I unlatch the dead bolt.

“Can I help you?” I ask, only poking my head out the now cracked door just in case she’s some kind of psychopath.

The woman turns to face me with a familiar smile, and suddenly I know exactly who she is. I feel the blood drain from my face. It’s Marnie Harrison. She’s standing right there on my front porch. Here, in Johnson City. She’s come to confront me again about what I saw that day at that damn festival. I knew I should’ve kept my mouth shut at that baby shower.

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