The Neighbours by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2021-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

26

SEAN

I’m really not happy about having to come home from a busy Wednesday in the office to get the ladders out of the garage and climb up to check on the guttering again. But that’s what I’m going to have to do because Katie has told me that there seems to be another blockage up there again after she noticed problems during the heavy rainfall today. I thought I’d got all the dead leaves and rubbish out of there last week, but I guess not, so here I am again, looking to do yet another repair job on this house that is slowly but surely testing my will. If it’s not the blocked gutters then it’s the burnt lawn, and if it’s not the burnt lawn then it’s the broken window and the smashed pot plants.

Propping up the ladders against the side of my house, I decide to climb up and make a quick check on the guttering before I get any tools out of the shed because hopefully, I might not need any, and it will be a few minutes work with just my hands.

I’m about halfway up the ladder when I look to my left at where my newly installed camera is supposed to be positioned and pointing at the garden. But to my shock, the camera is not there. All that remains of it is the wire coming out from the brickwork. It’s as if the camera has been ripped off the wall completely.

‘What the hell?’ I say as I lean over and inspect the situation, but there really isn’t that much to see. Just a wire hanging uselessly where there was once a fairly expensive piece of equipment instead.

‘I don’t believe this,’ I say as I shake my head and grit my teeth.

This has to be Jackson. He must have seen me put the camera up and thought he would take the opportunity to come around and take it back down again. It was obviously him who broke the plant pots and him who threw the brick through the kitchen window, and he knew he needed to get rid of the camera so that he was free to carry out more damage on my property without consequence. I’m being directly targeted here, and it’s time it stopped.

The problem is that Jackson is no longer next door. I saw Ian packing up the car this morning and presumably heading out for another stint on the oil rigs, and that means Jackson will have gone back to his mother’s house. I presume he will have taken my camera as his parting gift.

Number One is presently empty, which means I can’t go around there and confront Ian or his vandal of a son. All I can do is wait until they return, whenever that may be. That’s annoying, but it is what it is. At least things should calm down around here. I seriously doubt anything else will happen now until Jackson is back, and at least that’s something.

Realising

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