Nanci was smaller than Scooter had imagined, smaller than her mother -- and looking very forlorn, especially with that healing black eye and other bru...ises. Someone had worked her over pretty well, she thought. Boy, with everything else that's going down right now, this takes the prize! Over the years, she'd heard Crystal bitching and griping a lot about Nanci and how her wildness and thoughtlessness had ended up with Crystal being driven out of the house, to Jon leaving -- and, for that matter,. I was on the last of my strength when we left the last home and Al took me home. I thanked my brother for his help and I cried on his big shoulders while he held me tightly. Julie fed me another sleeping pill and I slept very well that night, no nightmares to haunt me. Friday Morning came and I woke up feeling better than I had since I got the news. Julie gave me the anti-depressants and another sedative just before the open house. One by one the other widows came in and paid their respects to. It was another sign of just how low Kenny had sunk that his next thoughts weren't about the problems he could have created for society, but rather how much money he could hope to get from these former students.From their messages, it was clear that a number of his people were now running large criminal operations, perhaps generating a lot of money. Kenny dwelt on how much money he could hope to gain.Mark had to work with the little information that MacIntosh had given him. He knew enough about. It only took a minute or two for me to get dressed. I felt much better now that I was actually wearing something that covered my stomach, well, most of it anyway.Dad was the first parent to reappear, "Jules, there's a message downstairs from a Mr. Grissom. He says that he'd like for you to drop by the store about seven tomorrow morning. He has some new employee paperwork to give you. Did I miss something?" With everything else that had happened I had totally forgotten about that. I applied for.