Betty
AS QUICKLY AS SHE APPEARED, she is gone. A little smudge on the hill. Frozen, I pray to God that she will not turn around. I pray to God that whatever Anna is going to do next has nothing to do with me.
I run my teeth down my tongue and spit onto the grass. The cold of her lips on my face, now burning.
She loves me. A crush, I could handle. If it was a crush, grand. But she said that she loves me the way that she loved Lillian Kealey. And look where Lillian Kealey ended up. What was it that Anna swears she was incapable of, that Tom swears she did?
Where is Bill? I need him. But I am stuck with the fear. I cannot run to him. And so, I remain with my back against the house, waiting for somebody to find me. Dreading to know who it will be.
And there on the horizon, I swear I see a tiny smudge of red. And I am sure it is Anna in her headscarf, settling in somewhere to watch me.
With a jolt of nerves, I stand up and run.