Chapter 98
Joyce
I have been given express instructions, and Elizabeth has been gone too long. I wish Ron and Ibrahim were with me. I’m writing this down while I wait for Donna to arrive, which I hope will be very soon.
It’s beginning to feel like this isn’t all some jolly lark.
An adventure where everything resolves itself and we all come back for more of the same next week.
Elizabeth said two hours, and she has now been gone two hours.
A bit more than two hours. What had I been thinking when I agreed to this in the first place?
There have been lots of things we had kept from Chris and Donna, but this is by far the most dangerous.
I am not one of nature’s liars. I can keep my secrets to myself, right up until the time someone asks me about them.
So I made the call to Donna, and I told her where Elizabeth had gone, and I told her she hadn’t returned.
Donna was very angry, and I understand that. I told her I was sorry for lying, and she said that Elizabeth had been the liar, I had simply been a coward. She then called me something which I wouldn’t want to repeat, but which, I have to admit, was fair comment.
I am so keen for people to like me that I chose that moment to say how much I had always liked her eye shadow, and to ask her where it was from. But she had already put the phone down.
Donna is on her way. I know she is very worried, and so am I. I have always thought Elizabeth was indestructible. I hope I’m not wrong.