"Of course."I turned off the highway onto the road that led to Robbie's house. I was driving Darlene home after school. Tami had stayed after to work ...on something for the paper, and I had the afternoon off because of the rain pounding down around us."Remember when we..." Something I'm not likely to ever forget," I said quickly, remembering her self-esteem issues. "A sexy cheerleader losing her virginity in my tent is one of those stories I'll bore everyone with in the old folks home ninety. She told me she set up a date for us. My heart pounded being asked out as a girl. She said I she would take me to meet him when the time came. Well, a few days later she told me the boy would meet me and wanted to take me out to the movies. He had a driver’s license and could use his uncles car. Mom picked out my outfit a cute black pleased skirt, black seamed stockings, pink satin lace trim garter-belt, black lace panties with white ruffles on the back, pink satin lace trim bra, tight red. Her hair was neatly styled, her mails were neatly manicured and she had a perfect fashion-model look. I had to look at my phone to make sure it was one o’clock in the afternoon.“I won’t stay long,” I said, stepping into her impeccably decorated house. I assumed she was dressed up for a business meeting and it didn’t take me long to confirm my suspicion.“But don’t worry,” Roxanne replied, “I work from home and my meeting won’t take long. He’s a regular client.”I had always assumed Roxanne was. . and wait ... and wait.I had now already waited for a month. My heart had begun to change the nature of its ache--from the short-term ache of missing a loved one who was gone temporarily, to the long-term ache of missing a mate who may be gone forever.Zach met with me for lunch about two weeks after he had been sprung from the hospital. He told me that the files I had received and then sent to him and Fife were what finally got Van Horn pulled in, since the case had been building for weeks.