It was a hot summer afternoon; the first day of September. Ellie gathered some fresh red roses and white jasmine blooms from her yard, and took them to her Dad's grave in a local cemetery. She took her small golden terrier mix, Camille, with her. Once she'd placed the flowers on her Dad's grave, she sat down on the marker for awhile. She noticed a man in the distance. He waved at her, and yelled, "Hey! You have a nice dog!". It kind of shook her a little bit, but she tried to ignore it.
A few minutes later, the same man called to her again, from a different place in the cemetery. "Hey! You have a nice dog!"At this point, Ellie got up from where she was sitting in the grass on the marker, and thought she might take a walk in the cemetery, as she usually did when she visited her Dad's grave. It was then that the same man called to her a third time, from another place in the cemetery, and it dawned on her that he'd been moving in a circle around her in the cemetery.
She began walking quickly towards her parked car, and when she had gotten close to it, the man drove by her in his own car! He had the window rolled down, stuck his head out of the window, and said, "You have a nice dog! What's her name?"
Ellie was a little afraid by now; all she wanted was to get safely inside her car with Camille. But she answered, "Camille."
The silver-haired man smiled, and answered, "Oh, Camille.....", and drove past her.
Ellie breathed a sigh of relief, once she and Camille were safely inside their car, with the doors locked. Ellie sat there for a little while, and wondered if she should just go home now, rather than driving around to the small pond where there were ducks, a swan, and some geese, like she had planned earlier. She looked around, and she didn't see any more of the man who'd been watching her.
After a few more minutes had passed, convinced that the man was gone now, she decided that she would go around to the pond and have a walk with Camille. She parked the car, and sat there for a minute or two, and petted Camille, who was excited about getting out for their walk.
Right at the point that they were going to get out, Ellie noticed a car pulling into the space next to where she was parked. She realized that it was the man that had been following her around earlier in the cemetery, and that he was getting out of his car to approach her!
Ellie stayed in her car with Camille, and backed out of her parking place. She stopped behind the man's car just long enough to get his license tag number, and then drove away. As she did not know whether the man would follow her, she drove around in town for a bit, so that he did not follow her home.
As she was driving around town, she started thinking about the man's appearance, and how he had acted with her, and it horrified her to realize that she knew who he was! The past was coming back to haunt her......
