I Babysat My Neighbor’s Daughter Every Weekend Until She Moved Away – 20 Years Later, Someone Left a Sealed Package on My Doorstep

open this if she’s gone.”

I sat down.

She’s?

Melissa?

Sophie?

I opened the envelope.

The first line made it slip from my fingers.

“Claire, if you are reading this, I am dead, and Sophie has finally decided she is ready to know everything.”

The letter was signed by Melissa.

The paper had yellowed.

“Twenty years ago,” it continued, “I lied to you. I told you I continue reading …