So once I got to the party, if there were any questions, I'd just hang out with them for a while. Maybe I would just hang out with them anyway until J...son showed up, if he did, anyway.Rob was working another party anyway, so he'd never know that I'd done it. And he was usually late getting back from these things anyway because he had to make sure that he got every possible shot and then had to make sure that he got all of his equipment."I'm going to do it," I said. Jessica's face lit up."Let me. "Aw, come on Mom! It's supposed to be vacation. That's why they call it Summer vacation!" I'm not on vacation, yet," Aunt Linda replied. "Not until the week before school starts. And you're going to the office with me tomorrow. It's only one day."Carol got off of the bed. "Great." Good night, J," Aunt Linda said over her shoulder as she headed out of the room."Good night. 'Night Carol."She skulked out of the room without a word. Aunt Linda clicked off the lights as she left, and I lay there. I had one more chance to go back, and there wasn’t a doubt in my mind it was going to involve Noelle. I was going to go back to that internet conversation, and make sure I didn’t make the same mistake twice. I walked around for a few minutes, hearing the floor creek beneath my heavy feet. I took a few deep breaths to steady my nervousness. Finally, with a slight tremor in my hand, I hit the button. A long flash of light. A brief pause. And I was in my old cloth chair in the computer room. I. Would she knock him over the head and steal everything? Or call her boyfriend she says doesn’t exist and rob him?“Here’s what I’ll do...”At the motel, he hands over his credit card and the manager hands over a key. He looks over Mike’s shoulder at the girl in the car.“Now we don’t allow no funny stuff here. That better be your daughter...” eyeing Mike closer, “or your granddaughter.”“Sir, no. No funny stuff. She’s mine,” Mike doesn’t elaborate, instead grabs the key and quickly heads out.In the.