Kerry: The Train, The TrainI was awake enough to notice the “xo.” She’d never included that in a text. When she sent another text a second later, I knew that she was trying to cover it up, the old flood-the-zone trick. It calmed me down, the “xo.” She may not have meant for me to see it, but she would never text something that she did not mean.
I did not have much time. I had been sitting in the kitchen waiting for her text for forty-five minutes. I tried to play it cool when my Mom walked in to get coffee and because, as I said, I was all over the place with her she did not bother to ask. I did ask if I could use the car. After a moment’s pause, she said it was fine. She smiled when she did.
So I was able to get out of the house in less than a minute from the first of the texts. Just be
