Jailer

The front bedroom light was on. She could hear the television in the sitting room blearing and laughing spontaneously. Shadows moved on the bedroom ceiling a man drying himself with a towel. Her imagination didn’t have too far to travel; she began to wonder how this man who would not communicate in the normal would feel if he knew she was there is his space watching him. The shivering stated again.

The shadow receded into the depths of the house. She found a piece of dry wall to place her body next to and waited. She still wasn’t sure why she was waiting, but wait she would! Sometime later she was not sure how long it had been there was the sound of the front door being opened. Milk bottles were placed in a rack and a ginger cat appeared at the gate. She began to get bored with it all, when the light of the garage flickered on.

A car door sounded, and the echo of the engine became a full sound as the car climb the ramp and into the view of the street. She moved quickly, standing just off the pavement in direct line of the car. She waited for him to see her; she held a small smile, knowing he wouldn’t understand what she was doing. She looked hard at the car as it swung out of the drive, but she couldn’t quiet see who it was in the car.

It stopped suddenly in front of her; a small white face surrounded with frizzy blond hair was in the driver’s seat. Suddenly, Jessica Lewis felt silly! The young woman was looking very quizzically at her, through the window shield. In embarrassment Jessie began to shout repeatedly “Where is he?”

The younger women swung the car door open “What’s a matter, what do you want?”

Jessie overcome with anger just wanted to get away as far away as she could, but she could not help looking over her shoulder at the house. There he was, standing looking out at the scene on the street. She swung around on the ball of her foot and ran toward the fence, which she jumped on her way to the front door.

“Come out you coward, I know you are in there” She started banging loudly on the front door using the doorknocker and bell together. The young women had left the car engine on and the drivers’ door wide open to follow Jessie down the garden path.