You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You - Plot & Excerpts
The atmosphere in the kitchen was festive. Marilyn got a big kick out of the fact that Jerry had managed to throw together a hot dinner using what little food she had in her cupboards and refrigerator. She laughed with delight like a little girl, and I wondered why her life couldn’t be like this every day. Why was there so much sadness and fear in her world when, to the world at large, she seemed to have everything? But beneath the laughter that night was my concern for Danny and Penny, my confusion about what had happened at the motel. When Marilyn excused herself to use “the little girl’s room” I asked Jerry, “Did you check the grounds today for any sign that somebody’s been watching the house?” “I took a walk around,” he said. “I ain’t Daniel Boone but I know what a bunch of cigarette butts behind a tree mean.” “So there was someone?” “The butts seemed fresh,” Jerry said. “They haven’t been rained on yet. We could check and see when it rained last, but I’d say somebody’s been in the bushes recently.”
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