Snippet #2177228

So much for getting a good night’s sleep. It was just one of those nights where time dragged on. Enid sat on the couch her back to the soft black leather, her feet curled in around her legs. The tv was on, muted so all she got was picture. It usually calmed her nerves and kept the memories at bay. Tonight it wasn’t helping.

She had tried every trick she had used growing up. The only other option she hadn’t tried was going outside. It was night time. Her house was surrounded by woods. There was no way she had going outside. While she loved being on the outside of the tiny town in the middle of nowhere, there were times when she didn’t like it. Now was one of them.

Her mind wandered back to the missing girl. They had never found her. Such a small town usually crimes to this degree never happened. The whole town had been in frenzy for a few days, lost budget, and called everything off. She hadn’t given up her money while she could have helped them. No one in the town really knew her. She came in once a week for groceries and was gone again. Besides of the random days when she needed things for shoots or extra material for her jewelry no one in the town really knew who she was.

The young woman was okay with it. But on nights like this she really did wish that she had someone she could call. She couldn’t burden her grandparents, plus they were already in bed and in a whole different time zone. So she was stuck trying to work out the unnerving feeling that something was wrong. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but she remembered the last time she had felt this way. It hadn’t ended well.

“So long as the power stays on… I’ll stay here. Otherwise, I guess the bar is still open.” She whispered to herself as she flipped channels trying to find something to settle herself down.