porch, and I saw her face clearly.
There was no mistaking her.
I woke Toby by shaking his shoulder.
“Get up,” I whispered.
He groaned and rolled over. “What time is it?”
“Look at this.”
I held the phone in front of him.
The sleep disappeared from his face almost immediately.
“What the hell?”
“It’s Kelsie.”
He sat up so quickly that he knocked his pillow onto the floor.
We watched in silence as she dipped the roller into the paint tray and dragged another thick black stripe across the
