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His mom was confused again. “What hotel?”
“No time, mom. Do you know if any of our neighbors have a daughter named Annie?”
I was lucky he was here with me. He was able to think more clearly than I. My emotions were clouding my thinking.
She was in deep thought when she finally spoke.
“Well, they are not our neighbors, but there was a couple living on Summer Alley. They had a daughter named Annie. The woman worked with me at my law firm. But they were killed by inquisitors six months ago. I don’t know what happened to their daughter.”
“Do you know her last name?” I asked quickly.
“I don’t remember…,” she sighed.
I was disappointed. But I was ready to knock on every door on Summer Alley and ask if Annie lives there.
“Wait. Her mom and I worked on a case together. I have files somewhere. Her last name is on them,” she said, getting up and running to her home office.
I ran my fingers through my hair and took a sip of my now warm beer.
“Oh fuck,” I said. “Get me a cold one, would you?” I said to Nick.
He got up and grabbed two beers from the fridge.
“Man, I really hope she is there. This has become personal for me. Now I need to find her,” he said emphasizing the word I.
“I’m giving up looking for her if she is not there,” I said.
“What? Why?” Nick asked, surprised.
“You heard what your mom said. She might come here. I will wait,” I shrugged.
“Yeah, but what if she doesn’t?”
“Then it’s not meant to be. I'm a tired man. I don’t know what is happening to me. I’ve never felt like this before. I want to resolve this and go back to not fucking caring about anything,” I said, getting angry.
“I think you are wrong,” he said. “There is something or someone out there that wants the two of you together. This is some higher power man. Maybe the Moon Goddess.”
Here we go with the moon again. I smirked and wanted to protest when his mom came back holding a file in her hands.
“I found it. It’s Powell.”
Nick and I jumped up and ran to his car.
His dad was pulling up the driveway and waved at us. Nick waved back and hurried inside the car. Before closing the car door, I heard his dad ask his mom why we were in a hurry.
Nick sped towards the Summer Alley. We decided to walk and check every door and mailbox.
We parked at the beginning of the Alley and started looking. We tried to be casual about it because we knew it looked weird.
We were almost at the end, and I was getting frustrated when we saw it. A mailbox with Powell written on it. This was it.
The house was yellow and there was a garden full of flowers in the front. There was a light flickering in the room on the ground floor, but the rest of the house was dark. They are probably watching TV.
I looked at Nick and he was tense. “This is it,” he said.
We walked to the door and knocked. We heard shuffling and the light turned on inside. The doors opened and a pretty girl with blonde hair and brown eyes was standing there surprised.
“How can I help you?” she asked, and I could feel how nervous she was.
