She had tried to get Mary to stay the night in her bed, and she would sleep on the couch, but Mary declined, and they hugged as Kelly thanked her again. Kelly stood on the porch watching her drive away; she waved again but couldn’t tell if Mary saw her or not.
Tingles ran down her spine, and Kelly couldn’t resist the full body shiver that overtook her. She couldn’t turn her back to the open area behind her, feeling the sensation that someone had their eyes on her. Instead Kelly backed into the house, locking the front door behind her before immediately going through the house, checking the back door and windows, her hands shaking and barely willing to cooperate with the locks. She tried to blame it on the darkness of the woods and being so used to city lights on all the time. She almost c
