Chapter 2: The following morning

It was early the next day. When Max, the family 100-pound german shepherd came back into Sonyas’ room. Sonya stirred in bed. She looked at her phone while she lay under the covers. Ten in the morning she thought. She returned some texts while she lay there. Forgetting all about the invite to use Mr. Johnsons’ pool. After some naughty texting back and forth. She finally started to get out of bed. Looking at Max, “You want to go outside?” She asked him. She looks around deciding if she’s going to take him outside she might as well lay out again.

Sonya and her parents lived in a small subdivision with few neighbors. She knew she can lay out in her backyard with little interruptions. Her neighbors on one side worked a lot of hours like her parents and would never be outside much anyways. The backyard was lined with bushes for the most part and a small decorative fence that was not more than two feet tall that lined along old man Johnson’s property. Old man Johnson was actually Bob Johnson. He was 73 years old, a little under 6’ feet tall but around 250 pounds. He had a beard and when Sonya was a little girl he even played Santa a couple of years and brought Christmas presents over, prearranged by her parents of course. He and his wife used to babysit her a lot. His wife has since passed away a couple of years ago and Bob now finds himself home alone watching game shows during the day. He would work on his old Lincoln in the garage from time to time and outside of keeping his pool clean he did not have much to do. His kids and grandkids lived two states over now in Indiana so he was left to his own since his wife died. Sonya always looked at Mr. Johnson as a kind sweet old man. However, on that summer day their lives would begin to intertwine.