365 Days, Zero Missed Calls novel · Chapter 14 of 16

Chapter 14: R.

I sat down in a plastic waiting room chair and scrolled to the top.

The first message was from Hudson, a week after my seventeenth birthday.

"Nobody say her name in the house again. Not once. Text only. Not on the house wifi."

Then my mother.

"She said good morning to me. I pretended I didn't hear. I went into the pantry and sat on the floor."

Then Asher.

"She asked me to fix the chain on the bike. I said not now. I fixed it at 3 a.m. Don't tell her."

I remembered the chain.

I remembered thinking it had fixed itself.

I scrolled.

Every morning, somebody posted a line.

"She ate toast. Just toast. Somebody tell the kitchen, more eggs."

"She ran six miles. She's faster than me now."

"Range scores in. She beat Landon by eleven points. Landon, you're a disgrace."

"Landon here. Confirmed. Disgrace."

Then Declan, in month two.

"I had to move her out of a doorway today. I want to die."

My father, under it.

"You did right. I know. I know. Go hit something."

Month four.

"She's moving into the boathouse."

"Hudson, sweep it. Every morning. Before she wakes up."

"The camera man is putting a camera on the north path. Only there."

"Somebody leave firewood."

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