Who: Lizzy, Beecher, possibly Holly and Chris Where: California When: early in the morning on Wednesday What: Lizzy ran away to find Chris.
The paper man had found it strange to find a little girl with a puppy in her lap sleeping on the door step of Tobias Beecher's house. Tip toeing around Lizzy he set the newspaper down before shrugging it off and putting it around the girl's shoulders. Maybe he should report it but he didn't know the whole story and slunk off.
After school the previous day she'd run off. She didn't want to be around her dad, or Dickie or Alex or even Olivia. She wanted to be with her uncle. He was a piece of sanity in all the insanity and was a comfort. Elizabeth had begged him to let her stay with him after finally getting a hold of him but he'd refused. Said he was staying with a friend and his kid and he wasn't going to bring in a house guest of his own. So she'd gotten the name of Keller's friend from her father a while back and went looking for him. Finding his address in the phone book she'd got there late that evening after everyone seemed to be tucked away in the house, the lights off.
Knowing she wasn't welcome inside, she figured she'd at least be able to sleep outside and was glad she'd brought her puppy Jules with her. The lab laid in her lap, keeping an ever watchful eye over the girl bundled up in a jacket even as morning came.