I need you to stay on this good behavior if you want your one-of-a-kind present.”“I know! And I’m trying so hard!” she said, tears coming to h...er eyes in an instant...“But I do have a treat for you,” Susan said. “I have a meeting to go to...”...“Is Missy coming over?” she asked.“Better than that! She’ll be spending the night,” Susan explained. “Your tia might have some big news when she gets home.”“News? About Mama and Papa?” she asked hopefully;“No. No news on your familia,” Susan said sadly.. So far at least her ex hadn't been bothering her at all.Our collective guilt didn't extend to the point where it kept us at work all day. I don't think any of us were there past 1:00 PM. It was a perfect, late fall, day and we were all anxiously awaiting what would probably be our last cook out of the year.We had a nice solar cover for the pool, and we also had a solar heating system for it. The water temperature was perfect, and the air temperature was in the low seventies. We had told Sarah. He said, “Every Friday you will take your gym clothes home and wash them.”“What if you’re sick Friday?” Sean asked.“Then you’ll take them home Monday night,” Coach Slaughter yelled.“Okay,” Sean said.Sid said, “I think Sean has a death wish.”“He’s going to die tomorrow once coach gets him in gym clothes,” Jerry said shaking his head.“Suzie is kind of young to be a widow,” Sid said.“Yeah,” Jerry said.Coach glared at the pair of boys. They did their best to hide. Coach said, “If you fail to wear. I stopped at a Denny's and sipped coffee while I called all the outlets I was supposed to visit and told them I would be a day late in getting to them. Then I went to a Target and bought a large thermos bottle and went back to Denny's and had it filled with coffee. I got a copy of both of the daily papers and a USA Today and drove back to the neighborhood, found a place to park where I could watch the house and settled in to wait and watch.It was a long wait and I nodded off a couple of times.