Some Must Die by Angie D. Comer

Author:Angie D. Comer [Comer, Angie D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3: Yonah’s Ridge

Samantha Archer (Sam)

I’m watching reruns of The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Mysteries. I have a girl crush on Nancy Drew and a boy crush on Joe Hardy from the Hardy Boys series.

I have a centerfold poster of them both on my wall from Tiger Beat magazine.

I hear the front door open. “Sam? I’m home!”

“Hey, mom, how was work today?”

My mom is a Professor at U of A specializing in Horticulture and Botany.

Her ultimate research goal is to find the least expensive, long-term way to alleviate world hunger. Lofty goals, but as she always tells me, if you are going to do something, go big.

“Work is good, honey. My research is going well; I’m onto something that looks very promising. Keep your fingers crossed for me.”

“Is it something you can tell me about?” I ask. My mom is super secretive about her private research. Our basement is her laboratory; she had it renovated a few years ago and has a ‘do not disturb’ sign on the door when she is working.

“Not yet, Sam. One day soon, I hope,” she says and smiles.

Mom begins making dinner, and I go to my room and put on my new Pat Benatar cassette. My favorite song is ‘Hit Me with Your Best Shot.’ I sing my heart out when it plays on the radio, so my dad bought it for me.

The music is fantastic, and I think I look like her. We have the same shape eyes and face, and I recently got my hair cut short like hers.

This one song on the cassette worries me; it’s called ‘Hell is for Children.’ I think it’s talking about child abuse. I can’t imagine going through something like that.

I still have the photograph of the missing person’s poster I saw when I was ten at a roadside park. It’s in a special binder I made as a school project on Crime in America last year. The photograph is in a plastic sleeve, so it won’t get damaged.

On the opposite page is the photo I took of two girls about my age on Mount Yonah, while hiking with my dad.

My dad is a park ranger for Craig-Head Forest Park on Mount Yonah. The Park has a 60-acre fishing lake, camping facilities, hiking, and biking trails, nature areas, picnic sites, and recreational areas. It is beautiful and also where my mom and dad met.

They were both in college; he majored in land management and forestry. Mom was photographing plants and taking samples for a project in her botany class.

He asked her, “What is your major? It looks like you’re working on a project.”

She looked up, smiled, and said, “Botany.”

My dad told me, “I knew I wanted to marry her the minute I laid eyes on her. She is the most beautiful woman; her smile captured my heart, and her light blue eyes locked it away forever.

I love to hike and enjoy nature with my family; we are all outdoorsy people, and on that specific day in 1983, my dad and I were walking trails and photographing wildlife.

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