Maggie was sittingdrinking coffee.She looked at me with a sneer on her face and then said,'Okay Lucy, time for you to start work, you can clear up inh...ere, then the lounge before starting on our bedrooms andbathrooms.' Emily giggled as she watched me start to clearaway the dishes from the previous night and then start towash up.'Don't forget to make him scrub the floors mum.' the girlsaid.'Oh don't worry, he, or should I say she, is going to cleanthe place from top to bottom today and everyday. "But I'd rather get a bit more 'evidence' first,hehe!" Our table- even Harriet, who of course has zero interest inboys- descends into a fit of giggles, a fit that only gets louder as afigure nervously approaches the four of us."Oh, hey Kain!" Suriya says as the spotty, straggly-haired boy walks upto us."H- hi," Kain says nervously. "Umm, hi, Laura." Hi, Kain," I say with a smug grin as the nervous boy looks so scaredthat I'm afraid he's about to wet himself. "What's up?" I, um," Kain says,. Finally everyone was so tired that we all decided to go over to Marge's house to spend the night. Doris and her k**s, Marge's oldest son and daughter who were both home from college, and Barb and I were all issued blankets and pillows and we all camped out in Marge's family room. Marge and her other two k**s went upstairs to bed. I guess there were about eight of us in that big room.Well, we talked for a little while until everyone pretty much fell asleep, and not long after everyone got. “Jennifer.” Then he made neither sound nor motion. She was nearly asleep herself when his touch relaxed.The phone was ringing. She couldn’t see a thing but the clock dial; when it was dark in Independence it was dark. She had grown up where outside darkness meant a power failure. The dial, however, said that it was nearly ten. “David, David!”He tightened his hug. Then he shifted in the bed. “Ten o’clock. Damn!”“I don’t want you to go either,” she said. But go he must.“June. After June, I sleep.