Wordle by Wordle: Day 203
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Wordle #1128 – SPECK
I approach the armchair downstage of Bree tentatively, trying not to spook her.
She’s not afraid, though—she’s angry. Bree wrinkles her nose in disgust and scooches to the opposite side of her own chair as I take a seat beside her, like I’m an unruly drunk on BART.
As soon as I slide a pair of headphones over my head—squashing down my hair unflatteringly, I’m sure—I hear Stevie in my ears:
“Introduce yourself, Cecilia.”
“Um, hello. I’m Cecilia Cale.” My voice cracks. Stevie tells me to speak directly into the mic. I clear my throat and lean forward. “I’ve been wrongfully accused of murdering Roy Liu, and I’m here today to prove my innocence.”
There. I’ve officially thrown down the gauntlet. But if Bree’s rattled, she’s doing a good job of hiding it. She looks down at her skirt, picking at an imaginary speck of lint.
Dead silence.
“Well, um, Cecilia… Welcome to the show?” Kaitlyn says after a beat, uncertain but also excited. She’s not bored anymore, that’s for sure. “I have to say, this is a first! We’ve never had a murderer—"
“Alleged murderer. Innocent until proven guilty, remember?”
“Oh, right, sorry… We’ve never had an alleged murderer on our show before,” Kaitlyn says, now sitting eagerly on the edge of the couch. There’s a hungry gleam in her eye, but whether she’s more animated by my presence or by the number of viewers steadily ticking up on the monitor, I can’t say.
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