Chapter 20
9:45 PM, Sunday, June 21st
Morelville, Ohio
Janet’s car wasn’t in the driveway Barb noticed, as she crested one of the small rises in it and proceed up. Sighing, she hit the button for the garage door, stopped and waited at the top for it to finish opening. ‘Still out. So much for having any sort of conversation with her right away and airing some things out,’ she thought.
The house was so quiet. There was no TV blaring an action flick in the family room with Dad and Janet calling out the good lines, no radio playing country oldies in the den while Mom chatted on the phone with this friend or that one. She missed her folks and the life they’d brought to the big empty house already.
She wandered into the kitchen. It was spotless. If Janet had been home at all, she hadn’t eat
