We need someone to baby-sit little Michael for us tonight. Would you be interested?" Sure, I'll do it," said Laurie. "I could use the money." Fine," s...aid Mrs. Hartley, "why don't you come over around seven o'clock.Do you remember which apartment it is?" Sure, apartment four-eleven," said Laurie. "See you at seven."The elevator stopped on the fourth floor and the couple departed. It closed again, and continued on up to the eleventh floor where Laurie lived... Laurie stepped off the elevator and. She takes a deep look at you as if she's looking at an old friend."You Tommy's son?" she asks as she looks over the registration."Yes, I am," you respond hoping your old man's college buddy will cut you a little slack."Tommy and I go way back. We went to college together. I lived across the hall from him. Those were wild times," she said smiling as you wondered how she still looks like she's thirty when you know full well your father went to college nearly 25 years ago. "You know we used to. "Ready, set, go!" she yelled.The three of them dove into the water and began to swim furiously towards the other end. Keri held back just a little and let both of them beat her to the far end, but then she put on a burst of speed which quickly carried her past the two brothers and she beat them back to the starting end. She laughed as they both surfaced, seeing the laughter on their own faces."Okay," Mark said, grinning, "so you can beat the pants off us. Big deal." Yeah," Steve cried from. .. Linda started to run, willing to go anywhere as long as it was away from that horrible spot, and without really knowing why, she ran up the trail to the top of the rise. She was again in the darkness of the night, but she moved without the fear of stumbling, as that had somehow lost its importance. There were too many other things to think of now, and a careless step, a fall was insignificant.Perhaps unconsciously she was thinking to go to Valerie Boyd with her new knowledge, to put the.