BothsAndNeithers
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- Joined
- Dec 9, 2015
- Location
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Leslie Roth cursed at the lock under her breath, jiggling the key again, pushing up to her toes to see if different leverage would make the bolt turn. She had crap luck with keys in general - lock picking, sure, she was on it, but actually getting a key to function in the door it was made for? Not so much.
She finally heard the click and sighed with relief, wiggling the doorknob to make sure it was really locked. She was house sitting for her aunt and uncle while they were on an extended vacation with her aunt's family. There weren't really pets to take care of - their home sat on land, and there was a barn out back, but they'd never had animals. They'd invited Les to visit for the summer after she finished her degree, though, to have time to recuperate from four long years at one of the country's better journalism programs. When it turned out that Aunt Julie's family reunion would be that summer, they apologized profusely and sweetened the pot, paying for her to stay and start their car now and again so it wouldn't suffer ill effects from sitting.
It had worked out perfectly. There had been a disappearance in the town recently, a young woman not much younger than Leslie. She wasn't sure she had much hope of discovering anything, but the girl's family's land had backed up to her uncle's - the barn was, in fact, almost touching the property line. It seemed worth investigating, anyway.
She'd spent the first week of summer sleeping and shooting out her resume, and now she was ready to begin her vacation in earnest. She'd pulled on sneakers and jeans as an allowance for the tall grass, but her top half was all summer, a sunny yellow tank top that hugged her curves. If she'd planned on seeing anyone she would've been more worried about the cream bra straps showing under the tank top, but she didn't. She threw her hair in a knot on top of her head as she walked, sunglasses protecting her from the sun.
The house was set back from the road, and the barn was out of sight even from there, down a hill and over a creek she'd loved playing in as a kid. She was warm by the time she reached the barn and slid the door open, throwing all her weight into the effort.
She finally heard the click and sighed with relief, wiggling the doorknob to make sure it was really locked. She was house sitting for her aunt and uncle while they were on an extended vacation with her aunt's family. There weren't really pets to take care of - their home sat on land, and there was a barn out back, but they'd never had animals. They'd invited Les to visit for the summer after she finished her degree, though, to have time to recuperate from four long years at one of the country's better journalism programs. When it turned out that Aunt Julie's family reunion would be that summer, they apologized profusely and sweetened the pot, paying for her to stay and start their car now and again so it wouldn't suffer ill effects from sitting.
It had worked out perfectly. There had been a disappearance in the town recently, a young woman not much younger than Leslie. She wasn't sure she had much hope of discovering anything, but the girl's family's land had backed up to her uncle's - the barn was, in fact, almost touching the property line. It seemed worth investigating, anyway.
She'd spent the first week of summer sleeping and shooting out her resume, and now she was ready to begin her vacation in earnest. She'd pulled on sneakers and jeans as an allowance for the tall grass, but her top half was all summer, a sunny yellow tank top that hugged her curves. If she'd planned on seeing anyone she would've been more worried about the cream bra straps showing under the tank top, but she didn't. She threw her hair in a knot on top of her head as she walked, sunglasses protecting her from the sun.
The house was set back from the road, and the barn was out of sight even from there, down a hill and over a creek she'd loved playing in as a kid. She was warm by the time she reached the barn and slid the door open, throwing all her weight into the effort.