Tossing and turning in her old bed, she woke up at 0.48, 2.37 and 5.44. At ten to six she got up and went to the toilet. When she came back she looked at the wrinkled bedding and decided that there was no point trying to sleep any more. She got her laptop out and went on her blog Morpho. She read over the stuff she’d written recently and then typed today’s date and time and started to write. Did Rachel commit suicide? That’s what I’m wondering. Did she go out to the lake late in the evening, sure that no one would be around, drink herself stupid and slide into the water? Was this her way of ending her own life?If I had rung her, listened to her story of woe, might things have been different? Or did she just go out to the lake because that’s where she thought she saw the ghost of Juliet Baker. She was depressed and took the alcohol with her. When there was no ghost did she just sit herself down and get drunk? And, getting up to go back to school, did she lose her balance and topple into the water?If I had rung her, might I have been able to lighten her mood, make her feel better? After she finished she shut down and felt disgruntled.
