I drove her.

She had to show her ID because she paid cash and the agent wanted a signature on the receipt.”

“Do you remember what day?”

“Uh, it was a Tuesday.

The Tuesday before the Tuesday Derek left Lily.

I remember because my salon is closed on Tuesdays and she asked me at the last minute.”

I wrote the date on the back of the bank receipt with a pen from my purse.

October fourteenth.