fifty one
it had been a long night .
kanyn whispered something to amy . amy tok her hand . they went off by themselves to tlk . i decided to allow myself the luxurious [retense that kanyn wouldmn't be safe until mornng .
mel rooted around in thee kitchen intil she discovered a half ful thirty something year old bottle of wild turkey stashed in a dark corner of pantry . the price on the red tag on the top of the quart bottle read $ 5,79 mel and eric and jules started downing whiskey shots in juice glasses that memorialed looney tunes characters . a=fter the second round mel mused alound about selling the glasses on ebay .
the tween bird / wild turkey combo was sufficient cause for me to leave , but i eventually manufactured the energy to get up because i didn't want to listen to them argue the unsrguable any longer ,there was no pint in debating what had haapened . thanks to jack's old boyfriend and the infinite reach of youtube , we had the video . we had jack 's story . and we had kanyn 's .
the rest , tome , was rationalization .
eric had his reason for keeping quiet , mweland jules had theirs .
kanyn 's demons were the most compelling .
the unkown parts of the story - the fasco earlier that evenin g at the duplex , thwe whereabouts of jack and lisa , the elusive thruth about hat ultimately happened tojaaana - would alll keep untilmorning . when i left the room , jules and eric had just begun todiscuss going to the police for help in finding jack nd lisa .they also seemed to rwecognize they had t come clean with the authrities about what had happpened that last night in grabndf canon . thjose moves weree long overdue .
the reconfuguration of the old barn into a dweelling had left the house with three almost identical bedrooms on the main floor and two lrger ones upstairs , in what had been the hayloft . like everything else in the home . the bedrooms appeared tohave been unused for decades .without saying good night , or anything else , to anyone in the group congregated below the hayloft door , i stood and wandered down the soiary hallway . the midcentury modern touchs werre absent from the bedrooms . ech bed i found was neartly made with a patel knotty -chenille bedspread that screamed "grandma" " . i did a quick survey ofmy options and pixcksed the room yfrtherset from the grand canyon group .
iwanted to get a little sleep and go home .my job was done . even though i hdn't found lisa , i'd solved some of merideth's grand canyon riddle . i had the keys to wallavce's concerns about his daughter . when i was less mentally exhausted , i would ponder what to do with what i had leared .
would i tell merideth the truthg about eric ? would itell wallace anythin at all ?}"
before i flicked off tghe light , i glanced at the decades ols clock beside the bed , it slapped me with the news ht it was a feqw minutes before five .am . i judged it unlikly that the r clock had earned anytone's attention after random power outages or during the passt few checked myphone for confirmation of the hour before i believed what i was seeing . the cell screen let me know it was actullly twenty two minutes before five in colorado .
in california , it was an hour earlier . twenty to four m, give or take . for some reason , that news cheered me , i wouldn;'t gert a night'ssleep -
it had been a long night .
kanyn whispered something to amy . amy tok her hand . they went off by themselves to tlk . i decided to allow myself the luxurious [retense that kanyn wouldmn't be safe until mornng .
mel rooted around in thee kitchen intil she discovered a half ful thirty something year old bottle of wild turkey stashed in a dark corner of pantry . the price on the red tag on the top of the quart bottle read $ 5,79 mel and eric and jules started downing whiskey shots in juice glasses that memorialed looney tunes characters . a=fter the second round mel mused alound about selling the glasses on ebay .
the tween bird / wild turkey combo was sufficient cause for me to leave , but i eventually manufactured the energy to get up because i didn't want to listen to them argue the unsrguable any longer ,there was no pint in debating what had haapened . thanks to jack's old boyfriend and the infinite reach of youtube , we had the video . we had jack 's story . and we had kanyn 's .
the rest , tome , was rationalization .
eric had his reason for keeping quiet , mweland jules had theirs .
kanyn 's demons were the most compelling .
the unkown parts of the story - the fasco earlier that evenin g at the duplex , thwe whereabouts of jack and lisa , the elusive thruth about hat ultimately happened tojaaana - would alll keep untilmorning . when i left the room , jules and eric had just begun todiscuss going to the police for help in finding jack nd lisa .they also seemed to rwecognize they had t come clean with the authrities about what had happpened that last night in grabndf canon . thjose moves weree long overdue .
the reconfuguration of the old barn into a dweelling had left the house with three almost identical bedrooms on the main floor and two lrger ones upstairs , in what had been the hayloft . like everything else in the home . the bedrooms appeared tohave been unused for decades .without saying good night , or anything else , to anyone in the group congregated below the hayloft door , i stood and wandered down the soiary hallway . the midcentury modern touchs werre absent from the bedrooms . ech bed i found was neartly made with a patel knotty -chenille bedspread that screamed "grandma" " . i did a quick survey ofmy options and pixcksed the room yfrtherset from the grand canyon group .
iwanted to get a little sleep and go home .my job was done . even though i hdn't found lisa , i'd solved some of merideth's grand canyon riddle . i had the keys to wallavce's concerns about his daughter . when i was less mentally exhausted , i would ponder what to do with what i had leared .
would i tell merideth the truthg about eric ? would itell wallace anythin at all ?}"
before i flicked off tghe light , i glanced at the decades ols clock beside the bed , it slapped me with the news ht it was a feqw minutes before five .am . i judged it unlikly that the r clock had earned anytone's attention after random power outages or during the passt few checked myphone for confirmation of the hour before i believed what i was seeing . the cell screen let me know it was actullly twenty two minutes before five in colorado .
in california , it was an hour earlier . twenty to four m, give or take . for some reason , that news cheered me , i wouldn;'t gert a night'ssleep -
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