Chapter Sixteen
Two weeks after Jojo’s funeral, Shana knocks on our door. My mother isn’t home, so I answer.
Shana is standing on our porch with the baby in her arms. She tells me that she’s going up and down the street talking to everyone. She says she lived on this street long enough to know that everyone sees everything and not the other way around. She tells me how sorry she is about Eden, but that Jojo had changed and that he evendrew comfort from his son. She tells me how heartbroken his mother is, as heartbroken as Eden’s mother. She tells me taking a life for any reason is wrong. She says she is telling me what she has told everyone else—if I know anything, I should tell. She says she hopes I will think about what she has said.
I think all night.
I think about this neighborhood and what it can do to people.
I think about my mother. I am all she has.
I think about her house. She has lived here since before I was born. This is her neighborhood. Everyone knows her. I think about what could happen, how people might treat her.
The next morning, I call the police and tell them what I know. And then I brace myself because I know that everything is about to change for me.
Norah McClintock is the author of a number of novels, including Tell, Down, Bang, Snitch, Watch Me and Marked. Norah lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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