Unknown Number
34.1087369,-118.2717596
Teresa
Izzy, do you know who this is?
Izzy
Does this mean you’re talking to me now?
Teresa
No. I’m just asking if you know who that text was from.
Izzy
It’s showing up as blocked on my phone.
Izzy
Those numbers. They’re bugging me. They remind me of Paige for some reason.
Teresa
Don’t say that name to me.
Izzy
It’s been, what, a year?
Teresa
Exactly one year. On Saturday.
Izzy
You know that ignoring it isn’t going to make it hurt less.
Teresa
You don’t get to tell me about hurt. Not after what you did with Josh.
Teresa
This conversation ends now.
Teresa
They’re GPS coordinates.
Teresa
Those numbers. Plug them into your maps app.
Izzy
It’s Mixto. Where we used to get tacos after school with Paige.
Teresa
Remember when she tasted flan there for the first time and almost puked?
Izzy
Ha! YES. The workers were laughing so hard.
Teresa
And she was all “It’s the texture! It’s the texture!”
Teresa
Anyway, you’re welcome.
Izzy
Just stopped by Mixto.
Teresa
I thought this was over.
Izzy
Oh no. This is not over.
Izzy
So I’m at Mixto, and I’m looking around, and I’m about to leave...
Izzy
...when something catches my eye on the telephone pole outside.
Izzy
There’s a notebook page stapled to it. With Paige’s handwriting.
Izzy
This was her serial killer scrawl.
Izzy
Here: "On the summer moon-lit Drive of Brown, Three shadows nightly crept...
Izzy
Dancing, laughing, splashing, While affluent heads slept"
Izzy
OUR BEST FRIEND IS LEAVING MESSAGES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE AND ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY IS HM? SERIOUSLY?
Teresa
There’s no evidence that these are from “beyond the grave.”
Izzy
Oh, ok Scully. You and your hard evidence.
Izzy
I’ve been binging on The X-Files, ok?
Teresa
What has three shadows?
Izzy
And what the heck is a Drive of Brown?
Teresa
Could it be a dirt road of some sort?
Teresa
You’re right. So why are we thinking en ingles?
Teresa
In Spanish, Moreno roughly translates to “brown.” Moreno Drive.
Izzy
That giant house with the pool you, Paige, and I used to sneak into was on Moreno Drive!
Teresa
WE are the three shadows!
Izzy
I got grounded for like a month when the owners finally caught us!
Teresa
Well, we solved the riddle. How nice. Now we can go back to normal.
Izzy
You have got to be kidding me.
Izzy
What do you mean you want to go back to normal? You don’t want to go to the house?
Teresa
I don’t really care.
Teresa
So I drove by the house.
Izzy
I thought you didn’t care!
Izzy
What did you find???
Teresa
That house has been demolished. They’re building a new one.
Teresa
But there were some coordinates spray-painted on a piece of plywood at the construction site.
Teresa
There’s something I need to tell you. About the thing with Josh.
Teresa
So, let’s not mince words. I’m fat.
Izzy
You’re not. You’re beautiful.
Teresa
Don’t give me that BS. I have a mirror. Anyway.
Teresa
When Josh started paying attention to me — even if it wasn’t ROMANTIC attention — that was huge.
Teresa
Then you came along and started flirting with him...
Teresa
You - this gorgeous, skinny, model-type...
Teresa
Then you two started dating. That hurt. It dredged up all these insecurities that I thought I’d already dealt with.
Teresa
You don’t. You never will. And this is why it’s been so hard for me to forgive you.
Teresa
Because no matter how tight we were before Paige’s cancer, this totally overshadowed everything.
Teresa
It was like I was losing two of my best friends. I felt so alone.
Izzy
I asked you if it was ok!
Teresa
If I told you otherwise I’d have to admit that I was jealous of you.
Teresa
The only person I told was Paige. She hated that we were fighting.
Teresa
Anyway, you ready? Here they are - the coordinates on the side of the new house: 35.0471127, -90.0259679
Izzy
That’s in Memphis, Tennessee. How are we supposed to get there?
Izzy
Wait a second. Those are the coordinates for Graceland!
Izzy
As in the Paul Simon album! Paige was obsessed, remember??
Teresa
Ugh, that old white guy music!
Teresa
You would. So what are we going to do with an album title?
Izzy
I’m in a café right near Rockaway Records, where Paige and I would go to buy records for her parents’ record player.
Izzy
I’m guessing it might be there?
Izzy
And T, I’m so sorry. I really am. I had no idea.
Izzy
Home now. I found a poem wedged in between Graceland and One-Trick Pony!
Izzy
On flights overlooking the Sliver sea
Izzy
In which no one can dip
Izzy
Rusty guards hold back the beasts
Izzy
That’s where you’ll find your TIP
Teresa
Well, the Silver sea in which no one can dip is definitely Silver Lake Reservoir, since no one is allowed to swim in it.
Izzy
Stairs! The stairs on the hill overlooking the Reservoir! We’d sit on those all the time.
Teresa
And the beasts are those awful dogs that would bark at us from behind the rusty fences until we fed them our Jack-in-the-Box jalapeno poppers!
Izzy
And I guess the tip is...another clue?
Teresa
T.I.P. Teresa. Izzy. Paige. That last night before she went back to the hospital, the cement on the bottom step was wet.
Teresa
We wrote our names in it.
Izzy
Yes! I’m coming to get you and we’re going to those steps together. For Paige.
Teresa
Lol! I’m already parked at your house! Come outside!
Teresa
And Izzy, I forgive you. :)
