"Oh, stop. It can't taste that bad. Here..." She carefully squeezed an eyedropper of amber oil into a spoon, and then squeezed the juice from half an ...range into it. As she did this I sat rigidly against the headboard as if long petrified, my face still frozen in the same gruesome pose."Speedy, stop making that ugly face. Now, here... here's your cod liver oil. Come on, stop makin' that face and swallow this."I looked her straight in the eye, with the same face."Speedy, that is the ugliest. " I remember." Well, Eric showed up late ... with a date." And that upset you?" Nobody told me about it before he came waltzing in with this exoticbeauty on his arm. Javier and Cruz knew about it and they said nothing.NOTHING! I was completely blindsided! Standing up on my chair, waivingmy hands like an idiot! He rolls in with Miss Oh so Cultured. You thinkeither of them would have mentioned something but noooooo, they justleft me hanging out there!" So you were upset because your friends kept. I had to go back to work. I just found this job at the school. I cant thank you enough. I cant loose this job. said Mrs. Hills. I reached in my back pocket. MMMMmmm. There are quite a few over due bills in here. This one especially. It says there going to turn off your power tomorrow if you dont pay. I said. What? Let me see. My husband was suppose to pay this last week. I forgot all about it. I gave him close to $400 to pay it. What am I going to do? said Mrs. Hills. I just smiled as I checked. We sit down in the sofa, and Lucy pulls her feet up under herself and leans on me. Almost ostentatiously, I think. That's interesting.“You know,” I say, looking at the three suspects, “there's a lesson to learn here. Anyone know what it is? Aron?”“Huh?” he says startled.“It's; Don't believe everything you read in the papers,” I say. There's no reactions. Mona has been chewing on her bottom lip the whole time, and I can't really tell if she's abashed or angry.“Fine,” I say. “Last night, Bethany.