I live in a small, rural bedroom community in extreme southwest Alabama. Although small (and alas, having no Walmart), it is right off I-10 and very convenient to I-65. It just keep thinking it would be an ideal place to "hide in plain sight." It's small-town/country, so people mind their own business but are happy to help if you need them. There must be numerous other close, equally geographically convenient quiet little towns where they could potentially "start over."
And yet... as I type this I can't ignore a couple of things that have lately stood out to me. I wonder if TC told Lizzie they were going to have a special day together away from prying eyes. Maybe she said she had to be home by 5 or 6 or else she'd be in trouble. I can imagine her being excited but also fighting a perhaps growing unease about how quickly things were getting so serious. Maybe he joked about running away but she wasn't ready to go that far so he reassured her that he was only dreaming...
I have a terrible dread that she was beginning to have second thoughts and was becoming frightened. If so, he no doubt saw the writing on the wall and decided to act immediately or else lose -- truly -- all.
I don't know... I'm so worried about this poor child. Today on my way home from work I saw a man and woman looking at some no-credit-check-buy-here-pay-here wooden modular storage buildings in an out-of-the-way lot in my little town (and there is usually no one ever at that lot). They had their car trunk open too -- odd.
I immediately did a U-turn right past the place, drove into the lot and parked near them, pretending to be reading the information posted on the building in front. I surreptitiously observed them but they paid me no mind and didn't match TC and Lizzie anyway.
So I made another u-turn back onto the road and headed home... wondering how crazy I appeared to anyone watching me, haha. But I am just obsessed with finding Lizzie safe. As a mom of four, I am just dying inside for this poor girl.
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