"Your a lying ass whore!" Dominic's words rang in her head before his fist against her. Sully stopped at the top of the stairs just as she fell to he... knees, his heart dropping, he got a call from Jordyn saying that she just missed him that was all but he could tell it was much more than that. He could hear the fear and the pain in her voice. She looked so broken sitting there in the light’s glow sobbing, he had never seen her look this hurt and upset before, it was breaking his heart just to. There’s an unspoken rule about following the garbage truck which we hold to — we come to a stop about twelve feet from the truck and the men. The older one looks at us and grins but doesn’t say anything to us. Deedee and I stand still again and watch. The stink is still surrounding us but it doesn’t seem as bad as it was a few moments ago, in fact there’s a certain pleasant quality to it, as if it’s a sign of even warmer summer days ahead. The men do their routine, step onto the truck, grab. “Yes! You remember! That elderly Ford Explorer patrol vehicle’s air conditioning had stopped working and the vehicle was like an oven. They’d promised us a newer squad car for over a year, but I swear that all the County mechanic did was keep the elderly vehicle running with chewing gum and chicken wire!”She scratched Herman behind his ears lovingly, and he panted louder. “Yep, even with the driver’s window open, and with all the other windows cranked half down we were still baking. Maybe I. There was one winter Erik and I spent a lot of time together - I saw him almost every day in fact. He had been laid off from his job, and my school schedule allowed me odd hours, when no one else I knew was available. So I saw him. We had lunch. We watched movies. We talked philosophy huddled up under a blanket in his basement, with me shoving my frozen toe-sicles under his butt for warmth. We had a lot in common, and a lot of areas where we squabbled endlessly about the same silly subjects.