Later that evening after her husband went to bed she decided to investigate her magazine further. Kelly flipped threw the many colorful pages. She pau...sed for a moment staring at a picture of a women tied to a cross, her legs separated by a pole with straps to her ankles. A man with his hands cuffed sits underneath with his head tilted up and his tongue at the entrance of her pussy. A woman dressed in tight black PVC clothing and a tailed flogger in her hand. The marks of the flogger, red welts. Thanks for letting me stay here.”We sat on the sofa chatting as if nothing had happened—or, at least she did. As much as I tried to act nonchalant and collected, I couldn’t get the carnal scene from earlier out of my head, the imprint of her unblinking, orgasmic eyes burned into my memory. Nevertheless, I did my best to focus as Yasmin explained that she wound up boarding an earlier flight and had arrived a few hours before expected into JFK. Instead of hanging around the airport, she called. I had been gone a long time, and I didn't want them to start worrying about me and maybe doing something foolish. That evening, I called John aside and told him what I had done that day. He had been a long-time friend of the scout and had been especially saddened by the murder. When I finished my story, John slapped me on the back in a friendly gesture and walked away into the shadows to be alone for a while.The rest of the trip to Independence was unremarkable. We met no more Bushwhackers and. That was why Randy had been so interested in Penny and Suzi.Suzi’s own fondness of Eric grew that day helping him and Randy try to come to terms with their differences. Joey was friendly to Eric and was patient when we spent time with him. But to Joey, Eric was just another one of the eight-graders.When Suzi popped her question to me and Joey at lunch on Tuesday, Joey didn’t know how to take it.Stopping his burger halfway to his mouth, Joey exclaimed in surprise, “You want to what?”Suzi said,.