Missing You, Love Sara by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [French, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7304-9343-3
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2000-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

Myra and Johnnie

Myra rang that night. It was strange, almost as though she knew we’d been talking about her.

‘I just rang to see if you’d heard anything,’ she said. ‘To see if there was anything I could do?’

And I thought, You just want to know if the police suspect you, as well as Johnnie. That’s the only reason you rang.

But I just said stiffly that, no, there was nothing new, and I was fine thanks, and I’d tell Dad she’d rung.

I know she thought I sounded a bit odd but maybe she just put it down to my being upset, because she just said gently, ‘Take care of yourself, Sara,’ before she put the phone down.

I started to watch after that.

I went to the café sometimes after school, before I went to Mum’s place, in case Johnnie was there, or Myra.

I walked past the football matches at the rec ground on Saturday mornings while Dad got the groceries, to see if Myra might be watching Johnnie play.

I watched at the school play to see if they sat together and on Heritage Day to see if they looked at each other across the crowd in the way people do even if they’re pretending they’re not looking at all. Or if they carefully didn’t look at each other in the way that people do.

But I never saw them together at all.

That might mean anything, of course. They know they couldn’t be seen together for years, maybe, or people might suspect.

And then maybe Johnnie wasn’t in love with Myra even if she was in love with him.

And I thought, Well, if she realises that, maybe one day she’ll confess to the police, to get even with him. Maybe one day if he goes out with someone else …

But Johnnie didn’t go out with anybody else either.

I wondered if the police were watching Johnnie and Myra too, after Dad had told them our suspicions, but they couldn’t have been because there were no strangers in town to watch anyone. Of course, they might have asked Constable Severn to keep a watch out, but he’s got all the police stuff for a hundred kilometres to do. I didn’t think he’d have much time to think of Reenie.

I wondered if the police were doing anything, anything at all?

And I kept on watching.

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