Unpleasant Duties, Part IV
Tank‘s POV
A month earlier“Pierre, what do you know about Lula’s people?” Momma asks, rinsing the last of the dinner dishes.
Not enough. I’ve had the background done. Her mother is a restaurant manager. Her father is unknown and her step-father is a truck driver. Her brother works a help desk and her sister is a hair stylist. Solid working class family. Neither of her siblings is married or has kids, they attend church on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and her sister still lives at home. Sister is divorced. Brother never married. No records, no scandals, nothing.
Lula, however, is known in her parents’ community as the wild child, the one who took off to New Jersey with her boyfriend against her mother’s permission. She fell into sin and vice, selling her body on the streets, in and out of jail. No one’s heard from her in years and it’s widely believed she’s probably dead. Continue reading