I quietly shut his door and went back downstairs to finish up in the study. Sunny was sitting in the family room watching TV. I avoided her for the re...st of the evening. I was still working when she went to bed. I waited for another two hours before going up. I debated just sleeping on the couch in the study but knew my neck would pay a steep price the next day if I did.I went into the bathroom to get ready for bed. I tried to be quiet so as not to wake her but I wasn't successful. She was lying. I wasn’t surprised by her look given everything that had happened in Iron Mountain the previous year.“Are you taking a vacation in the UP again?” her mom asked.“We are. We’ll be there from June 23rd to the 29th.”“We’ll have to have you and your extended family the the farm for a barbecue!”“That would be fun!” Jodie said. “Your kids were so cool!”“We’ll call you when we arrive,” I promised. “We don’t really have any plans except to relax.”“If you ride, we could probably arrange for that.”“I do,. He came to a favorite make outspot of his that not too many people knew about. He just called it "thecliff." He got out of the car and got up on the hood to lie down andthink for a while. "God, why are men and women so different?" That's an excellent question young man," God replied.Startled and scared, Jake fell off the car. "Who are you? Where the helldid you come from?" Jake looked at the strange person but couldn't seemto focus his eyes on them properly. "Ummm...are you a guy or a. . He went in. He didn't think about it. Didn't ask no questions."Kyle broke down again, as Emily hugged him tight."I was scared, Emily. That ceiling ... it looked like the mouth of hell. I froze..." You saved one of the kids, Kyle. You did everything you could." No, Billy did everything he could ... Jim and me were right behind him, once he led the way ... But it was him, in the end, that went in first. It should have been me."The breeze suddenly picked up, and Emily felt a chill."But it wasn't.