He’s Gone.

 

Heidi here. I came to walk the dogs. They’re not here. He’s not here. I never told him how much he meant to me. Nobody ever takes care of you. Johnny did. The Fast Finisher. He was that. Just gone in an instant. I kept his secrets. Have to start sharing them now. I know he’s not coming back. I suspect he’s, even now, trying to protect me. But I have the library to look at. He wouldn’t let me look at it. Now he can’t stop me. 

He’s got the dogs. They will be safe. I assume I will also be safe. But here’s what I can show you, the secret I thought I could protect. But I won’t show you the keyboard yet.

Okay. I will. You can’t understand it any more than I could. So how does it matter? He’s gone.

So, okay. He threw them in the wastebasket. Polaroids. Crumpled up. Didn’t want me to find them. How I know they’re important.