I grabbed it, squinting at the screen… 37 missed calls and 62 text messages.
“What the hell?” I muttered, scrolling through them.
They were all asking the same thing: Had I seen the news? Was I watching? Did I know?
Close-up cropped shot of a woman holding her phone | Source: Unsplash
I turned on the TV and flipped to the local news station.
The headline at the bottom of the screen made my heart stop: “House Fire in Elmwood Leaves Two Homeless, One Hospitalized.”
The camera showed a house I recognized. Delaney’s house. Or what was left of it.
The entire second floor was gutted. Black scorch marks streaked the white siding. Firefighters were still spraying water on the smoking remains.
A building on fire | Source: Unsplash
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