I needed to hear that. I tend to charge straight ahead, like the bulls I used to wrestle. I have learned that it is not always the best course.”“R...obert follow your heart, but talk to the girl.”We rode for an hour and a half more before coming into Westown. We were met by the mayor on the main street. Obviously there had been a watch posted for us.“Good day, my Lord Executioner,” the mayor said. “We had not expected the Marshal to return with you.”“I met the Marshal on the road this noon time. I. ”Our staring contest lasted almost a full minute.“Nobody is going to go anywhere,” Liz said when it became pretty evident that neither of us planned to back down. “Yes, Annabelle, there is a health care professional that is going to work with Travis when I can’t. But she worked elsewhere this week and only had a few hours yesterday. I didn’t realize that. I thought that she would be here until at least four and we would be back by five or six.”“Then we assumed your father was here,” Bev said,. Cheri spent the first fifteen minutes of it on one of the bus depot benches, rubbing her thighs together. Then she saw the movie theater across the street, and noted with delight that it was X-rated."One, please," she said to the young man at the box office.Two girls were eating each other on the screen when Cheri went in and sat down. She watched, fascinated, her eyes glazing at the erotic manipulations of female-to-female sex.In a couple of minutes, a man moved into the seat beside her. He. “About what?”“Just to visit,” she said, not sounding convincing. Then she rallied and said, “You and mom go visit your friends occasionally.”He arched an eyebrow. “I didn’t know you two were friends.”“We’re both victims of that day, dad. He never tried to get close to me because of what everyone thought of him, and I never approached him because my friends had me convinced for the longest time that he was no good.”He frowned. “Why did they say that?”“Because most of the kids in school are stuck.