However, as Daniel sat down, he almost immediately shot back up, sitting in the seat was what appeared to be a college student's class ring. It was ob...iously styled for a young lady. Nonchalantly, Daniel picked it up and dropped it in his pocket.As Daniel got off the bus at what appeared to be his correct stop. The driver handed him a transfer."Our last run is at 11:00, miss," the driver said, before closing the doors and driving off."Miss!!" Daniel blurted out. Daniel thought was even more odd. Tannenbaum, the teacher who had taken me under her wing at school. At that time I'd viewed Mr. Jacob's attentions as more sincere because I had learned a terrible thing about Ms. Tannenbaum. None of the other students at school knew it but she was a policewoman who was there to find out why the school had failed to identify an abused child.I didn't know what else Ms. Tannenbaum might be doing. I just knew that the police were as much to be avoided as the pimps who worked their girls on the main. “How ‘bout we start a new trend at Glencoe High, then!” Lynette rhetorically asked.“Why not, indeed!” Eda replied as she played a short and sweet drum roll on her DW skins.“We’ll work on something in a bit, E. I’ve got to run to the little girl’s room before I strike another skin or cymbal,” Cathy announced as she spun off her throne seat and hurried down the hallway.We all grabbed our drinks or snagged another one from the fridge as we waited on Cathy to return.“Miss me!” Cathy shouted as she. She was so angry that her mom would rather have a killer for a daughter than a succubus. “Lori honey, you do what you have to do to save yourself. Stop fighting it, it’s the only way,” her mother kept saying whenever she saw her.It was hard for Lori to imagine her mom going through the same thing. She had always seemed like Carol Brady or Beaver Cleaver’s mom. Too good to get her hands dirty, but if her mother had to make the same choice, she had gotten them pretty dirty.Lori stopped going.