The trees aren’t as thick as they were when he began his journey nor are they as big or as thick as the others. Even the smell seems to have changed... He is so wrapped up in the thought that he nearly runs into a man splitting logs over a large stump in the middle of a small clearing. ‘Can I help you son?’ ‘Oh excuse me,’ Spencer says looking over the man. There is something so familiar about the man, but he cannot quite place it. ‘I’m embarrassed to say, but I believe I do not know where I am.’. He was looking forward to some late evening celebrating and knew just where he was going to start. He could smell the foul man with the gun; he reeked. The muzzle of the pistol pressed hard against his ribs, jolting him back.Now he watched his gold watch being taken from his waistcoat, chain and all. His diamond pin disappeared into the stranger's pocket and then his heavy wallet was lifted from inside his jacket. He still could not make out the thief's face, just a pock-mark cheek now and. ”“Yeah, man, costumes will do that to you,” Dwayne says, not at all impressed. “That’s the point of them. But, dude, if this is why you’ve been missing school, that shit is way worse than my spray painting.”“Come on, Dwayne,” he pleads. “Just watch if you don’t believe me.”“You’re not going to get all naked on me are you?” he asks.Trent grins. “In a second you’re going to be asking me to get naked.”“I think it’s time for me to go, bro,” his friend says, starting to get out of the chair. “I’ll. He’s gone and only his clothes, shoes, and ID was found on his chair.”“What’s in the box?” Lucy giggled again.“A Friendship ring. Will you go steady with me?” Brien asked.“Brien if I were eighteen, I would marry you in a heartbeat. When I’m sixteen...” Lucy caught that they were not alone. The two twins and the three female lieutenants were all pressed together.Joe came in from the door holding the police report, “Sir, what did I miss?”Lucy grabbed the box and opened the lid, “My God Brien,.