" She started walking and I followed along."From when I was little, I knew when Dad was going to come home. I'd be standing at the door, just before h...'d pull up in the driveway. If he came to my room, I'd be at the door, waiting for him. I knew. I always knew."She turned towards the main street ahead. "The other day," she continued, walking briskly, "you asked us if any of us knew why Dad left. I didn't answer because I didn't know why Dad left, but yet... " She shook her head."Last year, the. All but diving forward, the dark figure grabbed the teenager’s shoulder and pushed as he fell, the lawn chair making an awful breaking sound as the girl shrieked. Barely lifting her head in time, her shoulders hit the ground, sending a stab of dull pain through her slender form, the man working quickly, grabbing the top of his victim’s blue bikini bottoms and pulling down.“N-No!” she shouted, her young voice going up an octave, her sun hat falling off as her glasses were knocked askew, the sun. “Don’t you get sand in my crotch,” she warned with a grin and pushed away to swim. “Race you back?”“You’re on!”We both body surfed back as far as we could, then ran through the shallow waves to the beach. We were out of breath and laughing like idiots when we got out. The current had pushed us closer to the volleyball game, so we wrung out our hair and wandered up to watch.Most of the guys were fairly athletic and their sweaty muscles made me tingle all over. Bethany’s smirk indicated she. He looked completely pleased with himself, and as smug as his grin was I just didn’t have it in me to wipe the look off of his face. So I settled for teasing. Face going dead serious.. ‘Did you kill someone? Do you work for the mob and I just don’t know it and we’re in the Kaman Islands along with your offshore bank account? Does your family own one of those Indian casino’s in the states?’ He glared at me, then came back that smarmy grin of his. ‘I’m not with the mob, there’s no casino and I.