"God Damn it!" she cried in dismay.She immediately reached for her cell phone to call her parents. That was when she discovered that her phone was no ...longer working. "Fuck!" She looked up at the sky, which was growing increasing dark and threatening with every passing hour. She grabbed a hooded sweatshirt she had in the back, locked the doors to the dead car, and began jogging towards Patty's house.Van drove through the entrance to Patty's housing development, and looked over again at the young. Beth and I stayed behind for a week at Daytona Beach when the team and her parents headed back to Kentucky from Jacksonville. It was a lot of fun and I think the time we spent as friends that week cemented the role we would play for the other through the next few years.In Daytona, I would meet another of the important people in my life — a 12-year-old girl named Sara Markley.Beth and I still visited children's hospitals when we got the chance. At Broward County Children's Center, I met Sara.She. She was dressed in her contest gown, crown and sash showing that she was Miss. Western New York Fall Festival. I whispered in her ear to come to my car in the pits in about twenty minutes. My name is Paul. When this evening happened I was 26 and trying to make a living as a stock car driver. I had one sponsor that paid most of my cost to travel and maintain my car and a couple of other smaller ones that about paid my tire bill, entry fees and gas. In effect my purse money was mine although. I was curious of course seeing as how I knew nothing about what they were all talking about and Mike then spoke up and said that it had been a secret and that Leslie should keep her damn mouth shut! The other two boys all nodded in agreement so I figured whatever it was they did, they didn't want me to know about it!Leslie then told them that she was positive that I would like it and she was going to tell me anyway! Mike got a little pissed but told her to go ahead and tell me but that I should.