the notes said i loved you first and i loved you last and i loved you most but lucy pretty much ignored them while the rest of the house freaked out because that crazy riverbank strangler was killing people all up and down that yarra that summer and we were close enough to the river that you could walk down there in about five minutes
andrew said not to worry about it but then he got a beer and drank most of it and you could see that mimed worry movement said what he really thought
simon said fuck it and then rhymed bucket with it and then just when everyone thought he was going to say pluck it he said chicken instead and you can see it’s obvious what he was thinking
sarah came around later and everyone was smiles until she handed lucy another note that had been stuck in the split weatherboard next to the front door
the note said you loved me first and lucy dropped her half-completed papier mache on the table and said marisol? and rushed out of the house on a wild crosstown ride to this dentist girl she had known in high school
marisol denied it was her writing the notes then got all coy and flattered but lucy broke her heart for the second time by saying she:
a) didn’t feel that way now;
b) had been going through a phase
there were no more notes after that so we figured it had been marisol but then next summer a bunch of people got murdered on the riverbank and they’d all been getting notes so maybe it was just a coincidence but whatever