Murder-De-Sac by Jim Bennett

Author:Jim Bennett [Bennett, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Julie walked over the field towards the attractions with a tupperware crammed full of biscuits.

She had convinced herself that it had definitely been her intention to make them herself. However, the police had only left her house late the previous afternoon. Therefore, she decided that their occupation gave her the perfect excuse to go to Tesco for her baked goods instead. In order to ensure that their authenticity wasn’t questioned, she dragged them across her cheese grater, adding a more rustic quality to them.

On the journey here, Julie had spotted a few posters for the event billing it as a ‘family fun day’. The only issue with them was that they were entirely posted on trees once you had turned onto the drive of the care home. Therefore the only people that would see them would already be on their way here.

There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the sun continued to bombard them with its ferocious heat.

Somehow though there were sections of the field that remained abjectly muddy. More than once, Julie lost a flip flop to the saturated dirt and had to pause to reclaim it.

‘Oh, very nice’, Tracy said, taking the container of biscuits from her from her place behind the cake stall. ‘Nice to have something homemade. All we’ve had so far is Penguin bars’.

‘It did say 12.30 on the leaflet, didn’t it?'

‘12.00 arrival for a 12.30 start, yeah’, Tracy said, placing the biscuits on a plate.

‘There’s just less people here than I would have thought’. Julie looked around again and confirmed her first impression. Only a handful of the 50 or so residents had anyone sitting with them.

‘It’s the smell’, Tracy said frankly. ‘Granny piss. That’s why we do it outdoors. Less chance of it getting into your clothes that way'.

‘Oh yeah?' Julie said, wondering if Tracy had once again forgotten she was related to one of the residents.

‘That’s why we struggle to recruit too. Young people can’t hack it'.

‘I’ll go and say hello to Betty then’.

‘Right you are', Tracy said, unwrapping a chocolate bar that she hadn’t paid for.

Betty gave her the little sweet smile that she always greeted visitors with. Julie bent down to kiss her cheek and her mother in law was gracious enough to pretend she knew who she was. For some unknown reason, she was wearing her coat and clutching her handbag. No doubt she had got the wrong end of the stick when they had told her she was going on a day out. It broke Julie’s heart a bit to see she was wearing what she used to call her best hat.

‘Well, aren’t I popular', Betty said smiling, as Julie settled in the chair next to her.

‘Not as popular as me', said another old lady sitting to their right. ‘That’s all my lot there'.

Julie looked at where she was pointing and saw a large group of people walking across the field. Unusually, half were in wheelchairs and the other half were attempting to push them across the uneven ground.

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