.. Meet me here tomorrow at 9 p.m. and then you can beat the shit out of me." Alexa handed the big guy Ivan the address to her apartment she was stayi...g at before she leaves for a dark match in another city."It'll be some good exercise shutting you up." she said. There was a knock on her door and it was Ivan. Bliss invited him in and told him to gear up as she headed for the shower. Ivan only put his speedo on and waited for her. "She's takin' too long." said Ivan to himself. He started. She wasn’t positive I would make it and a friend of hers had a visitor for the weekend and his friend wanted a date, so she said yes, she’d be his date. Anyway, she figured I was staying at my school to take my other girlfriend out! With that comment, she returned my engagement ring! She wouldn’t believe me over all the photos she had been shown. Her close friend, Casey didn’t have a date, so she volunteered to be my date. Casey and I had known each other for years and she was more like a. You have to remember that this was in the late 1990s when there were no smart phones, computers were relatively expensive, and the internet was a very, very different place. I thought we'd have at least a decent chance of doing this and not having it become the scandal of the entire campus. That maybe we would reach graduation before Kristy's secret got out.Instead, my roommate had found her only a few days after she returned from California. How easy would it be for me to do a search and find. She stayed home to care for the children, allowing Becky to continue her profession, and me to continue in mine. I'd received some nice promotions in the intervening years. My status and income were significantly higher. So was my work load.It had been a wonderful, idyllic life. Becky was eight months pregnant with the fourth child when a tragedy occurred, a tragedy which altered our lives significantly.I was at the office when the phone rang. It was Becky. She sounded hysterical."Bobby! Bobby!.