The Chocolate Jewel Case: a Chocoholic Mystery
“Then I imagined how stupid I’d sound.
I wanted to have a serious talk with my houseguest, I’d tell them, but when I looked for her I discovered she’d gone out for a walk.
Big whoop.
That was the reason people came to Warner Pier, after all. They wanted to get out in the fresh air and go to the beach and look at the beautiful scenery. Just because Gina hadn’t done that for the first week of her visit didn’t mean she wouldn’t ever do it.
So I didn’t call for help. I made my bed, then dressed in d...enim shorts, a T-shirt, and tennis shoes, telling myself that Gina would reappear momentarily. But when I came out of the bedroom, Gina hadn’t come back. So I went outside to look for her.
I circled the house, calling her name every now and then. Not too loudly. I didn’t want to be hollering all over the neighborhood. Gina might still be hiding out, even though she’d gone outside. Maybe Gina had come down with an acute case of cabin fever. I knew I would have been climbing the walls if I’d been in one room as much as she had.MoreLess
I wanted to have a serious talk with my houseguest, I’d tell them, but when I looked for her I discovered she’d gone out for a walk.
Big whoop.
That was the reason people came to Warner Pier, after all. They wanted to get out in the fresh air and go to the beach and look at the beautiful scenery. Just because Gina hadn’t done that for the first week of her visit didn’t mean she wouldn’t ever do it.
So I didn’t call for help. I made my bed, then dressed in d...enim shorts, a T-shirt, and tennis shoes, telling myself that Gina would reappear momentarily. But when I came out of the bedroom, Gina hadn’t come back. So I went outside to look for her.
I circled the house, calling her name every now and then. Not too loudly. I didn’t want to be hollering all over the neighborhood. Gina might still be hiding out, even though she’d gone outside. Maybe Gina had come down with an acute case of cabin fever. I knew I would have been climbing the walls if I’d been in one room as much as she had.MoreLess
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