The next day before I left for school, by a stroke of sheer dumb-luck, I learned that my mama had plans to drive all the way over to Elmira, to the law offices of Schlizmayer & Brown so she could sign some paperwork about her inheritance. I had already known by that point that my Step Daddy Cade would also not be home for most of the day, too. He had to take his new truck back to the Ford dealership to have a clicking noise in one of its wheel wells investigated. If everything played out right. I figured I might be the only one home later on when I came home from school. And, if that were the case, then hopefully there would be a message from the school attendance office on the answering machine that I could just erase before any chance of my parents having …show more content…
I decided to walk down Hedgeline Lane because at its end it just circled in a big loop back in on itself. Ultimately, taking me not too far from where it and the end of my street came together. On my way around the loop which was sporadically lined with homes and empty lots filled with trees, I was once again joined by a few of the neighborhood strays. I counted eight in total as they wove themselves in and out of the boskets that stood between some of the houses and seemed to work well as a playground for them. Halfway around the loop, I stopped to sit down on the curb and I played with the cats figuring that would help to pass the time. As I remained perched there, I watched as a car approached and then slowly rolled passed me. The car’s driver must have noticed me with all my feline friends revealed by the strange look on his face. It was a face that suggested he thought I must’ve looked like an old harridan who had lost her marbles and spent her days walking the streets with her horde of cats in tow like that cat lady from the