His smile was wide now. "I am so glad you told me that Barbara, Imentioned to you some time ago that I have a friend, Mary, that I wassure you would l...ke, she is older than you, closer to my age, but I'msure she might be just the sort of person you need!"For the first time William's mother actually looked a little shy,blushing slightly.He smiled at her reaction. "I will be asking her along when we next goout for lunch, I am sure you two will get along like a house on fire. NowI must ask you. He knew that Patrick would go ape shit when he found out and he wasn’t looking forward to being the one to break the bad news to him. Sitting down on the edge of the bed he ran his hand through his blond hair and took off his glasses, huffing on them with his breath and then wiping them with the edge of the mussed up bed sheet, cleaning them before returning them to his face. Damn Snake, he thought, every time they thought they were clear of him he would pop up like a bad smell on the sole of. . sell?” she asked sweetly.“Now, honey,” he replied almost as sweetly, “you know that we agreed not to discuss that.”For the rest of their meal, the conversation centered around the weather and what they might do on the weekend. After dinner, Janine shooed him out of the room, saying that she would clear the table and load the dishwasher. Bruce usually helped with that, but didn’t object that she wanted to do it alone.A few minutes later, she brought him coffee in the living room. She was. Joyce hesitates, not sure if she should call out or just keep moving.“Help! Help me!”She definitely heard it that time. A female voice was calling out for help from the darkness of the alley. The odd thing was… the voice almost sounded like it was coming from deep within a tunnel. Or a hole. It was so distant and echoey. This seems like a trap. Joyce resigned herself with continuing on before she was frightened by a much louder scream of terror.“Hello?” Joyce called into the alley. “Are you.