Matt landed on the doorjamb between the living room and kitchen, watching and listening as his mom and older sister Becky talked about their upcoming ...day."I don't know why you like that boy," his mom said to Becky. "You've been dating him since you were eighteen, and I've never seen why!" Oh, mom, just because you don't like him doesn't mean he's a bad guy," his sister replied back. The two never talked about the boyfriend when others were around, so this was more information Matt had heard. At two." Poor Steven. The little bandita princessa has stolen his heart." Not exactly." Hey, do you know her birthday?" No." See if you can get it. And don't worry about lunch." I can make up for it and take you to dinner tonight." Don't worry about it." But I don't like standing you up." You're not standing me up. You stand somebody up when you don't call and don't apologize. We can have lunch tomorrow or something." Well, I don't like doing this to y--" Hey. Do it. Get it out of your system.. He stays at my hotel often and has conferences with some other men."List the men's names to me?"Garfield suddenly turned non-co-operative again. "I can't talk about them! They are powerful men with connections. They could have me killed!" And you think we won't kill you if you don't tell us what we want to know?" Pat asked. "Look, we've no interest in hurting you if we don't have to. Unless you tell these people, they will never know where we got the information. So they will have no reason to. I'd never sad anything odd to her, and I hadn't stood out from the rest of my classmates in any particular way. As far as I could tell, she'd just picked me one day and started the harassment.It had started with comments: about my weight, my skin, my hair, my clothes, my family... Eventually, she'd moved on to physical abuse, like giving me slight pushes, pretending to fall so she could tug my hair, moving her chair into my knee - that sort of thing.And to top it all off, her father was the.