The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell by Balog Heather

Author:Balog, Heather [Balog, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

~TWELVE~

Allie and I are frozen in place, screaming for what seems to be an eternity as we both stare at our friendly, elderly neighbor sitting on the couch in an emerald green velour track suit. She looks like she is just chilling, propped up on an oversized couch cushion, crossword puzzle book on her lap, glasses folded neatly on top of that. Only problem is, there is a large gaping hole where her chest should be and blood splattered all over the back of the couch, the wall and the front of Mary’s body. It appears that she has been shot.

I have never seen a dead body before, other than at a funeral parlor, of course, but I am fairly certain there is no need to check Mary’s pulse. She is dead as a doornail.

“Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God…” Allie is muttering over and over and over. I can’t even console my traumatized teenager because I am shaking, shocked, and not sure what to do. Should I call the police? And ambulance? Roger? Mary’s husband? Son?

Just then, an even more sickening thought punches me in the gut. Where is Jason? What has he been doing all day? Where did he rush off to? Did he kill Mary because she found out he was dealing drugs? And where the hell is Sean? Was Sean home when it happened? Oh my God, did he kill Sean, too?

“Jesus Christ, Sean,” I yelp. “Allie, check Sean’s room, I’ll call the police!”

She stares at me as if I just told her to go give the dead woman mouth to mouth. “Are you crazy, Mother? We have to get out of here! Someone could still be in the house! And waiting to chop us up and put our bodies in little baggies and toss us in the river!” Her voice raises an octave with every high pitched word.

I shake my head. “I don’t think so. She looks like she’s been dead awhile. And besides we didn’t hear any gunshots and we’ve been outside the house for almost twenty minutes,” I point out. Oh really, Amy? Remember we discussed this earlier? You are not in an Agatha Christie novel!

“It would be hard to hear over the TV blasting,” Allie snaps back sarcastically, but I can tell she is petrified as she clutches my arm tightly.

Ok, Amy. You need to reassure her. Tell her she is safe. But the problem is, I’m not so sure I believe it myself. I open my mouth to speak but Allie is squeezing me tighter.

“What if he’s gone now, but he comes back?” my paranoid daughter shrieks while shaking me frantically. I am a wreck but she is becoming physically undone. “Oh my God, what if he kills us! Why did you bring me over here? This is scary, Mother!”

“Well if you hadn’t been doing drugs we wouldn’t even be over here to begin with!” I snap at her.

It is at this point that Allie gives me a look I can only describe as perplexgitated.

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