I put the pizza down and ask her what is going on. She says; " Janet had her baby and she is all alone out there since her husband is over seas in Eng...land and can't make it back till saturday night, so I am flying out to Denver to spend the rest of the week with her till he gets there. That's ok with you isn't it? You and Cindy will be allright while I'm gone and I'll only be gone till sunday. Is that ok?"I tell her; " That's fine and that it's great that she has a big sister to count on." I. Ah, well. There was nothing I could do about it now. In my mind, I knew I just needed a little more time before I had the courage to get back on the horse, so to speak. Kira had wrecked me, but she hadn’t killed me. I felt closer than ever to being ready to move on. Soon, I thought. Very soon. My attention shifted back to the TV. The bowl game was in New York, everyone’s favorite place to spend four hours outdoors two days before Christmas, and I’d only heard of one of the teams. Still, it. Reed had arranged for us to have the stage all day, so we were able to get a full run though before lunch, then work the scenes that Robbie was most worried about, then another full run though. The only catch had been springing some of our troop from the middle school, but Mr. Hallowell helped with that.We finished at three-thirty. Tami and I drove Traci and Susie back to the middle school for gymnastics, Robbie headed for football, and Darlene for cheerleading. By five-thirty we were all back. The Officer didn’t even look their way as they got dressed, still sobbing, as she had seen it all before, the girls reckoned.Rubbing their bottoms still, they left the outer room and entered the corridor. Immediately a guard cuffed their wrists and the girls were secured again and led along the corridor into the lift and back to the ground floor. As they walked along the corridor, they saw people coming the other way with their hands cuffed behind their backs and with worried looks when seeing.