Once we met we hit it off right away and got pretty serious. And though she is just nineteen years old, she and I have been quite active sexually. Too... often we have almost been caught by either her parents or her brother. But so far we managed to stay one step ahead of them and am hiding that fact from them. Or so I thought!Just last month she and I decided to take a trip to a hidden beach area we found about 20-30 minutes up the road from her home. Late in the morning I stopped by her house to. It hurt me to my heart to be reminded of Pete Costas's death. It was from the crash investigators that I learned about the bizarre chain of events that led to me not being rescued. It didn't make me feel very lucky to know that a one in a million series of events had people still looking for me a hundred miles from where I crashed. The crash team left at nine that night. I was tired but too keyed up to sleep, until my pretty blond nurse brought me a seconal. She sat and talked with me a few. Our personal filters change even the words we hear others say. Or we hear nuances that aren’t there, or make assumptions that aren’t true, and so on. What’s your take?”“That she went into this with her eyes wide open, at least as much as someone in their late teens and early twenties was able to. And she made decisions which impacted my thinking, even if I outwardly denied it.”“Yes, that’s very likely. May I make a fairly blunt, perhaps completely off-the-wall observation? Something I think is. "So did they get suspended?" I asked."I think it's worse than that. They were all put in police cars and taken away," Faith said."Where's Piper?" I asked."She didn't come to school today," Kiley said.What a mess. I was glad I hadn't been there this morning or I would have been right in the middle of it. This just got worse at every turn.Then the talk turned to why Emma might have started the fight. I decided to steer the conversation away from the truth."The thing that makes the most sense, is.