The next time I saw Brenda at work, she seemed strange like something was about to happen, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. She hadn’t been around much lately, and when she was, she always seemed distracted, like her mind was somewhere else.
I kept telling myself that maybe she was just caught up with Jason since things were finally falling into place for her, and she didn’t need this job anymore the way she used to. But even though I tried to push those thoughts away, there was this feeling sitting in my chest, more like I was about to lose something or someone important and couldn’t stop it from happening.
When she walked into the office that day, I knew right away that something was different. She wasn’t wearing her usual work clothes, not her blouses or pencil skirts. Instea
