Wordle by Wordle: Day 200
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Wordle #1125 – NERDY
Virginia retreats back to her couch, giving Bree space to rage.
“But maybe the worst part of it all is that Cecilia kept pretending to be my friend throughout the whole thing, like nothing happened! I called her the day after Roy went missing and she acted all innocent,” Bree huffs, ripping up the Kleenex still in her hands.
“Did you suspect her at that time?” Virginia asks carefully.
The video transitions to picture-in-picture, the live feed shrinking to make way for a slideshow of me and Bree together. There’s a photo of us from our early college days: Bree in her PINK sweatshirt and me in my old nerdy glasses, horn-rimmed and everything. Then the two of us at her bachelorette party, hugging. Then my mugshot.
Thanks for that one, Stevie.
“No, I didn’t suspect my best friend of murder,” Bree says like she’s been insulted. “Not at first, anyway…”
“But now you’re convinced that she’s guilty. So, why do you think she did it?”
Allegedly.
“I’m not sure… I think maybe it was a heat-of-the-moment thing. A crime of passion, you know?” Bree says like she’s still thinking it through. Like she hasn’t practiced this performance a million times in front of the mirror. “Cecilia has a drinking problem, and she was always jealous of our marriage. I guess she just… lost it.”
The slideshow fades away and returns to the wide shot of Bree, Virginia, and Kaitlyn sitting in the recording studio.
“Well, I think Cecilia had a secret accomplice who helped her—"
“The trial starts next week,” Kaitlyn barrels right over Virginia. “Are you ready to face your former best friend in court?”
“Oh, I’m ready,” Bree says defiantly, sitting up straight. “I’m ready to get the justice I deserve.”
My phone buzzes on the card table. It’s a text from Stevie:
Showtime.
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