The Day I Killed James by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780375849602
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

She drove him to the corner of Highway 1 and 46 East. Wished him luck. She didn’t ask his name because it didn’t seem relevant.

FOUR

The Specter Steals Cigarettes

When she arrived home, her phone was back. Sitting on the cinder-block stairs to her front porch. Its cord had been carefully wound around the receiver. Just sitting there waiting for her, like a gift.

When she opened the door and stepped inside, she saw her broken living room window had been carefully covered with a plastic garbage bag. White plastic, taped neatly on all four sides with duct tape. From the outside. She sat down and tried to think. She knew none of her neighbors, and as far as she could tell Frieda had gone home. Todd maybe? He knew where she lived now. Maybe. Maybe Todd.

She tried to reconnect the phone, but she’d pulled the wire out of the little plastic connector, which sat comfortably in the phone jack as if it could fulfill its usual purpose there. She took it out, stared at it, stared at the end of the wire. Wondered whether she could fix it if she had some kind of tool. Pliers, maybe. Those things that people tend to have available in a drawer when they haven’t recently run away from home.

Then, feeling too tired to consider it any longer, she went to bed. Tried to catch up on sleep before the morning, when she had to be at work, acting as if nothing had ever been wrong nor ever would be.

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