....a week's detention, after school, and an apology to the boy in front of the whole school."Steve agreed, "good. That's what she deserves. I'll let ...you to enforce it starting today........." "Please Mommy..........." Susan tried to plead, interrupting Steve. He still finished. ".............plus, at home one months' grounding, and she'll have to do her brother's chores for a month." Susan was really crying now. Steve continued on. "And........if you ask me for any break, I'll double it. Is. This got George to thinking, and cautiously glancing at her again. When George looked down the neck of her blouse (which he mostly wouldn't bother to, her boobs were kind of small) he could see that Faith had put makeup on her skin down there. And at the edge of the makeup, where it wouldn't be visible unless you were looking down her dress, was the edge of a bruise. When she spent those couple of hours working with George, her boyfriend beat her for it. The practice problem went pretty well. " Rollie could hear Jessica sigh. "Babe this doesn't mean goodbye or that we're done, it just means we need, I need, to get my head around what's going on. And what will possibly go on in the future." Maybe you're right Rollie. It has been hectic and almost overwhelming since I got here." Jessica hesitated and added, "I'd like to call you at least once a week. Would that be okay?" I'd like that Jess. Call me from New York if you get a chance." Rollie sighed himself. "Bye Jess, talk to you. . Arlene and I didn’t know about any of this at the time, and neither did Jeff until much, much later.“Nevertheless, I should have realized that something was wrong and never succumbed to Jack, and it will forever be my shame that I did. Once I allowed him to do it, he began to blackmail both Arlene and me. I almost lost my husband, and I probably should have, but he loved me enough to put what I did behind us. And, he did that before he knew the reason that we succumbed. But I can never.