"Donald said, "Talk about a hell of a way to keep witnesses safe on thewitness protection program. Why that witness would come out of thathotel and al... the murderers would no longer know them."They all laughed and Earl said, "One problem though Adelaide wouldonly wake that motel up when she is good and ready."After eating they cleared off everything and then Donald got thefirepit started and they sat around it drinking beer and Earl also litup his pipe.Eric said, "Well, it seems you have gained. Not with my little sister and her girlfriend in the same room. Both of whom must be equally disappointed, as they originally planned this trip as a way to become closer together."This is going to suck, and tell me again why we didn't ask to borrow Mom's Toyota?" Don't blame this on my Camaro. It's a classic, and I'd probably get a lot of money for it down here." It's a piece of shit, Johnny, and it sticks out like a sore thumb. But we're here, and we may as well make the best of things."One. With Dolly and Polly onboard, they now numbered ten and he considered the group to be solid threat to any like sized unit thrown up against them. The only real weak links were Ginnie and possibly Tom who tended to be very lackadaisical in his every response. Often, one of the others would grow tired of his hemming and hawing and just jumped in and got the mission finished without waiting for the slow and bumbling Tom to get it done. Mike just smiled and let the lad get away with it because it. If only he had asked, she had never lied to him, no matter how embarrassed, she had told him the truth. But he had never asked, and she had been too afraid, and now it was too late.The girl sat watching the box, the lid open, wrapping paper ripped, shredded in eager anticipation. Now she sat, across the room, eying the box, thinking. Before her on the table lay her laptop, the messenger window open, last nights conversation still visible, mocking her, the words typed with such anticipation, her.