‘Where were you at?’ Bill asked. ‘At 345 East and 206,’ I said. Bill dropped me off at the hospital and I got a room and went to sleep. Chapte...r 9 I was going to where Joe had said to check the place out. On one corner there was a chapel. ‘Hello, Bill,’ someone said behind me. ‘Who’s there?’ I asked trying to figure out who he is. ‘Do you know what this is?’ he said while lifting up a weapon. Looking at it, I quickly realize, ‘That’s the knife from the Jill Cosmo murder.’ ‘Do you remember the. I couldn't help but grudgingly admire that. My ultimate fan. An awfully pretty guy. Who was a dream babe. Whose giggles to my teases and jokes I'll miss. Whose nice different dresses and hairdos and shameless manners and gracescut her apart from guy-clone girls normal today. Whose long slow strolls in the park with me made my days and whose moviedates made my nights. Whose warm snuggles next to me on the warm grass pointingout animals in the clouds I was going to miss. . " She was looking at my mom. "I screamed. They hit you and you sagged down. I-i said I would go if they would untie the gag. They told me that I would go anyway but untied the gag. Momma Mathews, I'm so sorry they hit you." She sobbed a moment. "They took me into my room and made me strip and then raped me; Ed's father, then Ed, and then his father was doing it again when you came in and stopped them. I'm so-sorry. I didn't mean for anyone to be involved. I just wanted to get away from Ed and. The six of us were working on dinner, an eggplant and mushroom polenta bake – a new recipe for us. Dad was being goofy, getting us all to smile and chuckle. After the past few days, it felt so right to be down to the core of the family, having fun, putting an interesting dinner together.Dad had roasted the eggplant chunks in a cast-iron skillet in the oven, and had just taken the skillet out of the oven so the eggplant could cool. Rhee had gathered some of the items on the table for what we.