A Friend in the Dark

by Samantha M. Bailey

I was blindsided. The man in front of me was a stranger and not the person who’d been my rock and best friend for almost a quarter of a century. The only certainty I’d had in life was Dave.

What a piece of shit husband

And I don’t understand what I did wrong or how the man who once blushed and stammered every time he spoke to me could give me up without a fight.

My friend—everyone’s friend—Tyler Yates, vanished from the Sigma Chi house sometime during the night. He was reported missing the next afternoon, and by that evening, posters with his surfer-boy shaggy blond hair and sweet smile were plastered across campus. He’s never been found.

“Imagine I’m in the car with you.” I told him when to call me. I never told him where I’d be when he phoned.

He's totally watching her

It came in the form of a Facebook message.

WTFFF