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I found her dead in the pool and Dad came home just after me. He was working.Typical. Days later I found the note and showed it to him.
The coroners told us it looked like she slipped off the upstairs balcony and fell. We had one of those Juliet balconies on my parent’s bedroom. They said she fell from there. I couldn’t understand how that could happen.
Then I found the note and it made more sense. Something that didn’t make sense made sense and I hated it because I preferred believing that she accidentally fell off the balcony over believing she killed herself.
Killing herself meant she left me, left me in this world without her.
Now things don’t make sense again and that feeling is back. It’s back and it’s telling me that something is not right at all.
Dad made me promise not to tell anyone she killed herself. He didn’t want anyone knowing how much she hated him. He blamed himself because he wouldn’t give her a divorce. He wouldn’t allow her to leave him.
Now that I’ve found this picture, the picture of reality is clearer to me.
Mom was having an affair with her boss. Did Dad know? Maybe he did.
And what was she in danger of?
The note on the back of the picture doesn’t sound like someone who would kill themselves the following day.
It sounded like she wanted to protect me, but from what?
The bigger question is what actually happened to her. What if… what if what happened wasn’t what I think?
What if something worse happened?
Salvatore is holding me, probably thinking I’m crying because it looks like Mom had an affair.
I told Gabe what happened. He’s… the third person who knows Mom killed herself. Me, Dad and Gabe are the only people who know it was a suicide.
What if it wasn’t though?
I need to tell Salvatore.
I came straight here and waited for him. I waited for hours and now that he’s here I’m a mess.
His cheek against my head gives me reassurance and I shuffle to face him.
“Talk to me baby,” he says.
“There’s something I have to tell you. About my mother,” I begin.
“Babygirl you can tell me anything.”
“It’s a secret few people know.” I stop for a breath.
“Secret?” He narrows his eyes. “What is it?”
“Everyone thinks Mom fell to her death. She fell and hit her head and drowned in the pool, but I know otherwise. I found a suicide note and I showed my father. It was clear from the note that she jumped. Jumped to her death from the balcony.”
He blows out a sharp breath. “Jesus Mimi, what?”
I nod. “That’s what it looked like.”
“Who else knows?”
“My dad, and… I told Gabe.” I don’t miss the way he tenses when I confess that.
“When did you tell Gabe?”
