He did not know what significance to attach to her shake of the head. Troy was her boyfriend, but..."Sarah, I'm really worried about your cousin. I've... never met her, but I'm afraid she's vulnerable." Vulnerable?" She's angry," Sean explained. "She feels that she's been cheated out of life, and she's probably so horny she can't stand it. Besides that, she's probably not very smart about guys." I know she's not as innocent as I was, but I see what you mean. We've got to find her!" Let's go back. I mean, first, she just took over the household like she'd been doing it for years. I kept a clean house, but she made it shine. Meals? Breakfast every morning, a snack in a bag for me to take off to work, and when I came in there was always something ready for me.There was another thing. I'd come in and find the books she was reading. Yes, she did Mark Twain. And downloaded a few to my e-book reader, and I tracked titles and progress, and she was a reader. A pretty fast one.But one of the big. She made an instant fierce decision to run away and never come back.Cindy hurried to her room and dressed in jeans, a shirt, and sneakers. She took her heavy jacket, the ten dollars she'd saved from babysitting, and one trinket -- a cheap rhinestone-studded heart on a chain which fit snugly around her neck. It had once belonged to her mother.She was going to find her mother. She knew that Linda occasionally sent money for her and that Pop spent it all on booze. She figured he must have Linda's. The rest of the day went by in a haze. Kelly and I caught a movie and had a nice lunch together. It was actually the most enjoyable time I’d had with her in a long while, and it made facing my evening all the more difficult. When Kelly and I didn’t see eye to eye, Kylie was blessed relief. But there were also times when Kelly and I were kind of in the zone, when we actually carried on as if we were married. It was during those times that I felt the most intense guilt, and when I questioned.