Chapter 298: Locker

That locker is yours. Don’t ever tell mom about it. – Leigh Anne

RYE’S MEMORY

Friday night, Rye had graduated with the rest of her class. After the ceremony, she returned the borrowed cap and gown, not even keeping the tassel. Then she got in her recently bought new-to-me car and drove to Savannah.

There was a fear in the back of her mind that the locker would not be there. Or that the contents would be gone. But it was still there. Thankfully. Using the key that had become so much a part of her, she opened the locker and found a black duffel bag.

It looked like one that Anthony had bought for them to put clothes in when they moved to Tampa. Vaguely, in the back of her mind, she remembered that one disappeared after they left. Shortly before Leigh Anne ran away for a few days.

Rye had gone on a school trip and Leigh Anne ran away during that time. She didn’t remember the trip very well. She didn’t even remember where they had gone. What she did remember was the