I walked toward the bathroom expecting to find a mess or maybe something he had accidentally left behind.<\/p>\n
Instead, I found a folded piece of paper beside the sink.<\/p>\n
It had my name on it.<\/p>\n
Inside, the delivery guy had written only a few lines: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for lying. My mother didn\u2019t die tonight. I needed an excuse to get inside. Someone has been following me for days. I saw the same car behind me again when I pulled onto your street. If anything happens, please call the police and give them this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Underneath was a license plate number.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
I rushed to the window and saw a dark sedan idling across the street. The second I stepped back from the curtain, its headlights turned on and it drove away.<\/p>\n
I called the police immediately.<\/p>\n
The next morning, an officer contacted me. The delivery driver had reported threats from a former coworker after witnessing something illegal at their old job. He had been terrified that the man was tracking his delivery route and did not want to involve a stranger until he had nowhere else to leave the information.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, police located him safely later that night.<\/p>\n
A week later, he returned to my house\u2014not with pizza, but with flowers.<\/p>\n
He apologized for frightening me and thanked me for taking the note seriously.<\/p>\n
That was when his strange goodbye finally made sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll meet again\u201d had not been a threat.<\/p>\n
He simply hoped he would survive long enough to come back and explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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