Ellie to the Rescue

Ellie was the first to admit she panicked and rushed from the post office. She’d finished sending the packages, but hadn’t checked the PO Box. When she got off the phone with Melody, her heart was pounding, and she was talking like a madwoman. She had an emergency, and she’d pick up her packages tomorrow or the next day. Ellie prayed the clerk understood what she said. It was so humiliating.

It took Ellie a bit to find her way to the back parking lot of the building. The one-way streets were killer on your mileage and time-consuming. It’s supposed to lower the traffic on the streets. In a pig’s eye, it did. It just made things worse for everyone.

She texted Mel that she was waiting, and the coast was clear. Ellie drove right by him to get there. But he’d not seen her or her car because he was too busy looking into shop windows for Mel. Ellie guessed he didn’t think they’d have a key to the building. A week and a half, that’s what time they had to wait for the apartm