He was shocked to find the guest room had been transformed over night into a pink den of femininity. An eight foot long vanity with a garish Hollywood...make up mirror encircled by bulbs had replaced the staid oak chest of drawers and the bed now sported a pink satin coverlet with flouncy skirts trailing to the floor. The windows were similarly draped in gauzy lace. On top of the vanity four newly coiffed wigs were poised on wig stands with identically pert faces that stared at him expectantly.. " I couldn't tell you and I couldn't stand it and they made me stay away when you needed me the most." Angry tears started to well up again and she took a tissue out of the travel pack in her purse. She dabbed at her eyes and sniffed a couple of times. "It nearly killed me to not be there for you. I haven't slept right in months. I've been so afraid you'd hate me for not telling you."She paused again and still playing catch up I asked "That's why you never pledged Omega sorority; you were too. That wouldn’t draw any attention. Oh, no.I ran to the corner of the building and peeked around it. The rear end of the car would be visible to anyone walking by the driveway that led to the back of the building. There was nobody around, at present. I decided it was unlikely that any casual passerby would decide to go toward a cop car, at least not until it had been sitting there all day. I ran back to Bobby and told him what I wanted to do.Together we muscled them back into the car, putting. The two of us would have been back-to-back, taking on the world. You and I straddling the line of the present, one eye peering to the past, the other cast to the future. And ready to slay anything that came at us."In the month that followed their visit to Chuck's grave the anger sessions of regret grew more numerous. The rage was still there. But it didn't always weigh as heavily in the forefront of Ray's mind. He wasn't sure when it happened. He didn't have a clue which meeting with Mike.