She had spent several days in near depression after Jullian's departure. She had tried to act as if everything was normal for Charlie's sake, but seve...al times he had asked if everything was all right. She had concocted a story about a close high school girlfriend passing away, but then had to make up additional excuses when Charlie insisted that, since they had been so close, he and she would attend the funeral. In addition, Charlie, as was often the case after he had been away for a day or. It meant that she was going to invite a bunch of the ladies over to the house for drinks. The party wasn’t supposed to happen till about 6 PM so earlier that day she had me and Tanya helping out with getting everything ready. After we finished Tanya and I went to my room to hang out and after we walked through the door, she closed it behind her. Now this was not like we weren’t allowed to close it, just that she had never closed it. So I knew something was up. I continued to the stereo to turn. I brought Ted tovisit Mara's grandparents and looking at their puzzled faces, said:"OK, I don't have a way to explain this to you, but this is really yourgranddaughter Mara, see if you can put some responsibility in his head."Then I left, without looking backwards. I had enough trouble on my ownother than to care about a teenager boy with stamina. The universitystudents told me they would help the couple to adjust to that weirdsituation.The time spent in the search for Ted was not completely. Dinner was great and consisted of steak, baked sweet potatoes and grilled veggies. We were about the only ones in the campground, so I knew it would be a quiet night. After dinner I announced I was going to head to the showers. This campground had restrooms and a heated shower. I had just got under the warm flow of water when I heard them enter the women’s side of the restroom. I heard them laughing and talking, but suddenly Mindy screamed and then Sam started shrieking something about a snake..