"The children quickly ate their food, looking at the strap that was lying on the table next to Cade. He smoked a cigarette in an attempt to calm down ...as they finished eating. Finally, when the children were done with their food, Cade stood up and looked at them. "Go outside and wait for me. I want a word with your mother alone."The kids scrambled out the back door away from the house. "He's gonna' whup us for sure when he sees how far away this dog is," Ashley said in a worried voice. "No he. ‘My pleasure. Let’s hit the road, traffic is already starting to build.’ They chatted about their week, work, people and the news during the drive out of town. Occasionally Robert would pat his hand on her leg, and Elise could feel a small tingle run up her leg each time she felt him touch her. She knew this weekend would perhaps change their friendship, she could see it in his eyes. She saw it when he looked at her, which was partly why she wore the sweater she did. She liked to look and feel. We shoveled a lot of it.Three days later, right when I was beginning to fear the team would pack up and leave me all alone, they found the body, still clad in the remains of her old housecoat all wrapped in the Navaho blanket, still holding on to her purse with her skeletal fingers still gripping it tight. An hour later they found the bodies of his previous two victims, his previous wife and her young son. For the first time in twenty years I began to feel that there might be some hope left in. Puja was a young girl of my age, with 5’ 5” as height, wheatish brown skin color, developed breast of 34 C, big eyes, smiley face and a beautiful jawline with dimples. I have not described myself as I never looked upon me as a girl; one who could be aspired or desired as a beautiful. I, as a Muslim girl was brought up without ever considering myself as girl, one who could be appreciated, liked or praised as beautiful, pretty or charming. I was not allowed to use any makeup. I was a commodity or.