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- Authors: Andrea Mara
- Language: English
- Genre: Psychological Fiction
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Marissa
Friday
THE HOUSE LOOKED LIKE any other house and the door looked like any other
door. Normal. A bit generic. Not what Marissa was expecting. She pressed
the bell and stood back. What had she been expecting? Something a little
grander, perhaps. Jenny had looked so groomed at the school social, and
Marissa realized she’d built up an image that didn’t quite tally with this
very ordinary-looking house and its very ordinary-looking door.
As she waited, her mind ran over everything they had planned for the
weekend. She’d have to pop into the office at some point – the audit was
only weeks away, and she needed to go over the Fenelon file again. Then
there was her tennis match, book club – and dammit, she still hadn’t
finished the book.
Footsteps. And a shadow through the glass panel as Jenny approached
and opened the door. Only it wasn’t Jenny. The woman was short with a
mass of unruly brown curls, and a tea towel in her hand. The nanny
perhaps? Though she didn’t look much like the nannies and au pairs
Marissa saw when she dropped Milo to school each morning.
‘Hi, I’m Marissa, I’m here to pick up my son, Milo?’ she said to the
woman.
‘Ah, you must have the wrong house, there’s nobody called Milo here.’
‘Oh!’ Marissa said, fishing her phone from her handbag. ‘I’m so sorry, let
me just check …’ She clicked into the message from Jenny and read aloud.
‘14 Tudor Grove …’ She looked up at the woman. ‘Sorry, what number
is this?’
‘This is fourteen, but there’s no Milo here. It’s just me.’
Marissa shook her head, looking down again at the text, as though it
might have somehow changed in the intervening seconds. She held it up to
the woman.
‘I’m not going mad, am I, this does say 14 Tudor Grove?’
The woman nodded. ‘Someone must have given you the wrong address.
Sure, give them a ring and see?’
She started to close the door, and that’s when the first pang of unease hit.
It felt like it did last weekend when she couldn’t find Milo in the
playground – he was there somewhere, of course he was, but she couldn’t
relax until she had eyes on him. And seconds later, she did. But she had no
eyes on him now. Now, he was in Jenny’s house and the woman who was
not Jenny was closing the door.
‘Wait! Sorry, do you mind if I stay here while I ring, in case there’s been
some mix-up?’
The woman’s kind brown eyes suggested she had no idea what kind of
mix-up Marissa meant, but she kept the door open. Marissa hit the Call
button on Jenny’s text and waited for the ringtone. There was none. Just an
automated message.
The number you have called is not recognized.
Unease slipped into mild panic.
‘It’s not working,’ Marissa said to the woman, her voice hoarse.
‘Come in,’ the woman said, pulling the door wide. ‘We’ll figure it out.
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