Someone Else's Shoes by Ellen Wittlinger

Author:Ellen Wittlinger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2018-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

When they got home, Oliver went upstairs to see his dad like he always did, while Izzy went into the kitchen to look for snacks. She hauled out a jar of pickles from the back of the fridge and put them on the kitchen table with a bag of tortilla chips. She was searching through the cabinets for her mother’s big pitcher when Oliver came back into the room with a wide-eyed, panicky look on his face.

“What’s wrong?”

His mouth was half open, as if he were searching for the right words. “My…my dad’s not here.”

“He must be,” Izzy said. “He never goes out. Did you check the bathroom?”

Oliver nodded. “He’s not upstairs.”

Uncle Henderson had not left their house since he and Oliver had arrived more than a month ago. He hadn’t even sat on the front porch or gone into the yard.

“He must be here,” Izzy said. “You look in the basement. I’ll check the parlor and the backyard.”

But Uncle Henderson was not in any of those places. Oliver’s eyes were blinking wildly. “Maybe this is a good thing,” Izzy said. “Maybe he walked into town for something. To go to the bookstore or the food co-op or something.”

But Izzy didn’t really think her uncle had done that, and she could tell Oliver wasn’t buying it either.

“Let’s go look in his room again. Maybe we can find a clue.”

The minute they walked into Uncle Henderson’s room, Izzy saw the piece of paper on the bed. Oliver probably hadn’t noticed it earlier because he was only looking for his father, not an explanation for his disappearance. He saw it now, though, and got to it before she did.

As he read over the paper, Izzy could see the blood drain from his face. He looked like he might throw up or even pass out.

“What is it? Let me see!” Izzy grabbed the sheet from him, but it took her a minute to make sense of the words on the page. What was this? A letter of some kind? And then she realized what she was looking at. It was the note that Aunt Felicia had left for Uncle Henderson before she killed herself.

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