# Chapter 11: The Ghost in the Laundry Room
Hello everyone, it’s me again! How are you all doing? Today I will continue to walk with you and review Chapter 11 of *Forget You Saw Her free digital audiobook*. And wow, this chapter is a quiet storm from beginning to end. It is one of those chapters where the walls of the past close in, a mother refuses to back down, and a ghost discovers that even the dead can still push the living toward the truth.
We begin with Andrea leaving Dennis standing in the shed and hurrying back into the house. Being dead—or being a ghost, as she now understands it—comes with strange little perks. She can squeeze through almost any space, slipping under door cracks and through torn screens. It is a chilling ability, but also a useful one. She moves through the house unseen, only to hear heated voices upstairs. Sabina has somehow convinced Bunny to show her Andrea’s old room. Or what used to be Andrea’s room.
What Sabina finds is not a bedroom. It is a cramped laundry room. The washer and dryer are wedged together, dented and yellow, clanking like a psychotic drum solo whenever they run. Andrea remembers learning to sleep through that noise. But worse than the noise is what it used to hide: the creak of her bedroom door opening in the dark, and Dennis’s whisper: “Shh. Don’t fuss. The more you fuss the worse it’ll be.” Andrea refuses to relive those memories in high definition. Once was more than enough.
Sabina turns in a half-circle, taking in the laundry, the dirty clothes, the impossibility of a bed fitting there. Bunny mutters that it might not be fancy, but the bed fit just fine. Her eyes cut pointedly to Sabina’s expensive jeans. Andrea rolls her eyes. Her twin bed used to sit so close to the dryer that she could open its door while lying down. Now Dennis has moved the bed to the garage. Bunny has boxed up Andrea’s clothes and shoved them into a corner with the spiders. In so many ways, it is as if Andrea never lived in this house at all.
Sabina asks where Andrea’s things are. Her voice rises with every word. Then the back door slams downstairs, and Bunny’s face hardens. She demands to know why it is any business of Sabina’s. She says she put Andrea’s things in storage until she comes back. If Andrea wanted them so badly, she should not have run away. Bunny is not keeping a shrine. What lesson would that teach her?
Sabina’s lower lip trembles. She presses her mouth into a tight line, trying to hold back everything she really wants to say. She apologizes, saying she did not mean to accuse Bunny of anything. Andrea, invisible but fiercely present, says, “Oh, you should accuse her.” In the first days after her death, Andrea listened to Bunny and Dennis talk, hoping Dennis might confess. He never did. Bunny has no idea that Andrea is buried under a cement slab on the other side of the neighborhood. And because Bunny spent so little time worrying about Andrea’s disappearance—and because Dennis convinced her so easily that Andrea was an ungrateful runaway, damaged goods from the start, wrong in the head—Andrea now hates Bunny almost as much as she hates Dennis. Dennis had even said they should have held out for a brand-new baby like everyone else on the adoption list.
Andrea desperately tells Sabina to ask about her friends. Bunny is already herding Sabina back into the hallway, about to throw her out. But to Andrea’s delight, Sabina tilts her head in Andrea’s direction, almost as if she can hear her. Sabina plants her feet in the doorway and asks who else knew Andrea. Can Bunny at least give her some friends’ names and phone numbers? Bunny waves her hand dismissively and says Andrea was a loner. At that, the embers of rage inside Andrea flare. Something in the laundry room clanks so loudly that Bunny nearly jumps out of her skin. Andrea is delighted. She is pretty sure she did it with her “ghost juice,” as she decides to call it.
Then Dennis appears at the top of the stairs. He snaps, “Who’s this?” Sabina turns and stares at him in silence. She takes in the dirty blue plaid shirt, the too-tight cargo pants, the patchy neck beard, the thinning hair combed over a bald spot. There is no mistaking the disgust in her eyes. And there is no mistaking that Dennis sees it too. Finally, Sabina says, “I’m Andrea’s mother.” No apologies. No hesitation. Just that title, delivered with a glare that says she is furious and fighting back tears.
Dennis makes a sound that might be a snort or a laugh. He says that is pretty damn funny, but he does not care who she is. He did not invite her into his house, and from the look on Bunny’s face, Bunny does not want her there either. He starts wheezing with fury. Bunny warns Sabina that she had better be on her way. Sabina stands taller, her eyes flashing. Andrea’s resentment toward Sabina—for giving her to Dennis and Bunny—thaws a little. She reaches forward to hold Sabina’s hand, imagining their fingers twined together. Sabina demands one friend’s name. Anyone. Then she will leave. Not before.
Andrea loves her for that with a fierceness that surprises her. Dennis’s nostrils flare so wide that Andrea can see the long black nose hairs he never trims. He is not used to people—especially women—standing up to him. Andrea whispers, “Fuck yes,” and squeezes Sabina’s fingers again, because Sabina’s chin is trembling now. Dennis’s hands clench into fists, as if he wishes he had not thrown away that old leather leash with Andrea’s dead body. Nobody moves or speaks for agonizing seconds. The tension in the hallway is so high that even invisible Andrea is uncomfortable staying there.
Then Dennis’s eyes change. The little wheels in the back of his head start turning. Andrea can almost read his thoughts. He does not want this stranger poking around his home, but he cannot shove her down the stairs like he did to Andrea. Not without consequences. And from the smug look he had after the police questioned him, he is sure he covered up the murder completely. No witnesses. No evidence. No body. No murder weapon. He vanished Andrea completely.
Andrea demands that he tell Sabina where to find Paloma’s parents. She tries to summon more of that white-hot emotion, but she is tired. It feels like she has emptied all the steam, and it will have to build again before she can make more sounds. Dennis mutters something that might be “Sassy bitch,” but to Andrea’s delight, Bunny does exactly what Andrea told her to do. Bunny says the busybodies who own the hippie-ass smoothie place a few blocks away put up missing posters. They said Andrea was their daughter’s friend, but Bunny calls that bullshit. She thinks they just wanted to get on the news. Andrea was a loner. She did not have any real friends.
Andrea hisses, “Because of you and Dennis.” But she is thrilled Bunny obeyed her. Was this another ghost perk—some kind of mind-meld? Or did it only apply to weak idiots like Bunny? Andrea makes a mental note to experiment later. Sabina asks, “Desert Greens?” and holds up her phone. Dennis grunts and stomps downstairs. At the landing, he yanks open the front door and hollers that if Sabina is not out in thirty seconds, he is calling the cops. Andrea spits, “Liar,” wishing she had the energy to summon sirens again just to see his face go white. Bunny shrugs at the phone screen and confirms the place. Andrea tells Sabina they should go. And when Sabina falls into step beside her, Andrea tells herself it is because some part of Sabina really does hear her.
Sabina kneels to put on her shoes, which she had removed despite the disgusting house. Then she hesitates. At first, Andrea thinks Sabina is going to push Dennis for more. But Sabina is looking under the entryway table, beside her shoes. Andrea feels a flutter of anticipation. “Take it,” she whispers. As if she heard with perfect clarity, Sabina angles her body sideways while putting on the second shoe—and swipes her hand beneath the table before Dennis realizes what she has done. Sabina says nothing to Bunny, who glares from the top of the stairs. She does not lower her eyes as she walks past Dennis out the front door. The door slams shut behind her.
Sabina gets in her car, eyes blazing, right fist clenched tight, jaw set. She hits “Go” on her Maps app for directions to Desert Greens. Without looking at the item in her hand, she gently sets it on the passenger seat beside a sweatshirt—where Andrea sits riding shotgun. Andrea looks at her, feeling the invisible pressure valve tick closer to red. Only this time, it is not anger. It is excitement. Because something is happening now.
Paloma’s parents own the hippie-ass smoothie place Sabina will reach in seven minutes. Andrea has replayed and scrutinized her memories of Paloma over and over. She is pretty sure Paloma had been worried about her. Maybe Paloma said something to her parents or the police. Maybe she will open up to Sabina now. Hope swells alongside the excitement. For the first time in three months, Andrea feels like she has not simply disappeared into the void forever. A handful of people still cared that she existed once. And maybe, just maybe, Sabina cares enough to keep going until she discovers the truth.
## Reader’s Impressions & Star Rating
As a reader, this chapter hit me hard. It is not a loud, action-packed chapter, but it is emotionally explosive. The laundry room is such a brutal symbol of everything Andrea lost—her privacy, her safety, her childhood, even her memory in that house. Bunny’s coldness and Dennis’s menace are suffocating, and yet Sabina’s refusal to back down gives the chapter a fierce heartbeat. I loved the small ghostly victories: the clanking dryer, the whispered instructions, the swipe under the table. Andrea is no longer just trapped in memory. She is beginning to act. The ending filled me with hope and dread at the same time, because Sabina is walking into something dangerous, but she is also walking toward the truth.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.9 / 5 Stars
## Next Chapter Prediction
Next, Sabina will arrive at Desert Greens and speak with Paloma’s parents. I think they will reveal that Paloma had been worried about Andrea and may have noticed bruises, fear, or strange behavior before Andrea vanished. That could be the first real thread the police never pulled. Meanwhile, the mysterious item Sabina swiped from under the entryway table will likely become important—maybe it belonged to Andrea, or maybe it is proof that Sabina was in the house. Dennis may realize something is missing and panic. I also predict Andrea’s ghost powers will grow stronger when her emotions spike, especially if Sabina gets closer to the truth. The danger is that Dennis has already gotten away with murder once, and if he suspects Sabina is not going to stop, he may try to silence her too.
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