What a scene it had been! Just like we planned. I turned to look at Red, who returned my gaze with a quizzical look on her face. Reaching out with my hand I made as if to stroke her cheek, but all I felt was the cool cotton of the pillow in the empty space next me. She really would never had been happier than when you nailed her to that tree.”
Red’s words pacified me. There was no one there. The sun streamed in through the large bedroom window of the mountainside apartment. Number 2 was still talking to me, unlike her elder sister who had battened down the hatches very much on the side of her mum after everything came out. That had all happened in the past twelve months, to the day, since we had played out the final act, here on this very mountainside.
