The Perfect Other by Kyleigh Leddy

Author:Kyleigh Leddy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-four

On January 8, 2014, Kait was wearing a red North Face jacket when she disappeared.

That is a fact among others. None of them makes much sense to me.

A girl walks to the peak of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge during a polar vortex. A girl in a red North Face jacket and high winter boots. A girl walks, and then, poof, gone.

My sister walks to the peak of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

I never viewed the security photographs myself. Perhaps it was easier not to know, not to have the definitive proof of seeing it for myself. Is it really her? Are we sure? The image in my head is thus one of my own creation: stagnant and irreversible. It plays in a loop, never changing (no matter how hard I try to change it).

Kait walks to the peak of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

Kait walking.

Kait, and then, poof, gone.

I repeat this mantra in my head. When I say it aloud, the image freezes, rewinds, slows down, and then continues with the same feverous, relentless pace—the same sad cycle. I want to shout out, scream: Stop. Someone stop her. Why is no one stopping her? I know how this story ends.

My sister on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

On January 8, 2014, my sister walked the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

My sister disappeared.

Kait keeps walking.

Poof, gone.

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