Any reason why you want to be one of them school counselors?" She nodded slowly. "When I was in school, none of the counselors seemed to know what to ...tell me about why my father wasn't around or why my mother was always gone. So I grew up thinking that it was somehow my fault, that I had done something wrong. I think I could help children in the ways that I wasn't." almost as if it were an afterthought, she continued "That's who I was supposed to meet, you know. I had never met him before and I. She agreed and we exchanged numbers. We ended up meeting for dinner first, which went really well. There was some light flirting, but it was nothing serious. It was around 8 PM and she asked if I still wanted to go get drinks, and I said sure. There was a bar just down the block from where we were. We walked outside to the parking lot, and she followed me there. There weren’t many people in the bar. We sat and had our drinks. The flirting progressed more with the more we drank. She started to. Mark who looked like something very bad had happened he said that she called him and said she was coming down with a virus and maybe they get together next day. So Mark went out to dinner with a friend and while there he saw his love lover his everything there with a older man who looked about 20 years older than her and she and him were making out He knew that it wasn't her he was to marry and he didn't even say anything to her so not cause seen yet he was totally depressed now and I said to. It appeared to be empty but on furtherinspection she felt a miniscule bump in the bottom right corner of thebag.Penelope reached in and dragged out a fragment of stone with herfingernail; it glowed a dull red. The put the red fragment into asmall ziplock bag and tucked it into her pocket. She lay outeverything in the evidence box and took photographs of everything withher phone. Next came the tricky part; she put the red velvet bag intoanother evidence bag and sealed it and then went out.