One Day Gone by Luana Ehrlich

Author:Luana Ehrlich [Ehrlich, Luana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter's Word Publishing
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

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After picking my clothes up off the floor, I invited Whitney to have a seat in the living area while I grabbed the paper with Lizzie’s doodles on it from the bedroom.

“Make yourself at home,” I said, pointing over to the refrigerator in the kitchen alcove. “There’s bottled water and soft drinks in the fridge.”

She removed her wrap from her shoulders. “Thanks, I’m good.”

When I walked back in the living room, she was sitting on the sofa looking through the hotel’s glossy magazine about Columbia.

“I’ve lived here for almost twenty years,” she said, “and I don’t think I’ve been to half the places listed in this magazine as ‘Must-See Sights.’ ”

“Which ones have you missed?”

“Well, I’ve never been to Brown’s Farm, and I’ve never explored the Agricultural Park.”

I sat down beside her. “If I remember correctly, I went to Brown’s Farm on a third-grade field trip. Believe me, you’re not missing much, although I did enjoy milking the goats there.”

She smiled as she placed the magazine back on the coffee table. “I think I’ll skip Brown’s Farm. I’m strictly a city girl.”

She leaned in closer to me and looked down at the paper in my hand. Her hair had a faint scent to it, something I couldn’t identify, although for a brief moment it reminded me of fresh strawberries.

“So those are Lizzie’s doodles?”

I handed the paper to her. “Her roommate Savannah told me whenever Lizzie talks on the phone with someone, she doodles about the conversation she’s having with them.”

Whitney nodded. “I’ve done the same thing myself.”

She studied the drawings without saying anything for almost a minute.

I sat back on the sofa and watched her.

Finally, she looked up at me and said, “It looks like Lizzie draws an object, and then she keeps going over and over it again.”

“Maybe she keeps tracing over it until the conversation moves on to a different subject. As long as she’s talking about the same thing, she doesn’t draw anything new.”

“That’s probably it.” She leaned over and took off one of her shoes. “I hope you don’t mind if I take these off. I can’t wear them more than a couple of hours without my feet going numb.”

“No, of course not. Make yourself comfortable.”

Although I tried not to be too obvious about it, I watched as she removed her other shoe and settled back on the sofa with her feet tucked up under her.

“Okay, feel free to disagree with me,” she said, looking down at Lizzie’s doodles again, “but here’s what I think about her drawings.”

She pointed her finger at what Savannah and I had both identified as a camera. “This is obviously a camera. There’s no doubt in my mind about that, and I think this doodle right here is a piece of clothing; perhaps a cape or a coat. I believe this drawing is a stack of logs or a campfire.”

“That’s good. You’ve confirmed what I thought the first time I looked at these. Savannah said the same thing.”

“I admit her drawings are a little abstract, so it’s not easy to tell.

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