Iain Kelly

595, that’s what Jane had told me right enough. It didn’t figure, her being how I remembered her from school an’ all, and the house I was looking at now.

Back then she had lived in this real palatial house, her father was some hot-shot lawyer type.

How had she ended up in this dump? That’s what it looked like. A dirty rundown shack. A real dump.

A little cute kid came running out from behind the old house. Real cute looking, but dark-skinned. Not black, but kind of coffee-coloured. That confused me because old Jane was whiter-than-white pale-skinned.

I was beginning to think I had maybe the wrong town altogether when old Jane herself appeared. She was much older, but it was her sure enough. I would recognise those blue eyes anywhere, even if she had put on a bit of weight.

She recognised me too, and that crazy smile I remembered spread over her face.

She was holding a baby. It had dark skin too, just like the little kid, who was staring at me.

I kinda figured out how old Jane had ended up in a dump like this. Guess her father wasn’t one for moving with the times.

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