She turned to face thebedroom door and was surprised when Frankie pushed Rita Cordova intothe room."So you couldn't keep your mouth shut Rita! And Mi...helle; you got atemper like a wildcat!" Frankie said firstly to Rita and thenMichelle.Rita glared at Michelle and Michelle shook her head unspeakinglyindicating that she hadn't told Frankie about being ravaged by thedetectives in her office."So now you know I've been fucking both of you!" Frankie had beendrinking all afternoon and was in no mood. I did the best I could and came backout and picked up my purse to leave.While I had been in the bathroom, Sherri had taken off her wig and waswearing boy jeans and a tee shirt. She was removing her make up in themirror. She topped and came over and kissed my cheek. "When will I see youagain?" I said. "Oh...don't worry, I'll call you." And with that I left andI knew I would never see her.It was 4 in the morning and fortunately I was almost sobered up. I droveback to our college town and took off. “I’ll only do that because I hate losing more than poetry,” Coach Slaughter said. He knew that the team wasn’t doing well because he wasn’t a good football coach. That hadn’t been a problem before since there had been another coach who did the football coaching. He had done the soccer and the team had actually done quite well until the other coach retired. The football team now had four losing seasons in a row and there was a lot of grumbling over the matter.“That’s what I suspected,” Sean. Beth responded with a resounding no. Then she wenton to tell Cheryl how the talk they had over the Christmas Holidays hadchanged her mind.Cheryl accepted her sister's answer and let the subject dropped. Shedidn't totally drop the subject, however. Cheryl mentioned this to hermother and Leigh. Both of them acknowledged that they too noticedsomething different, since her return from Colorado but they couldn'tfigure out what was different.------Beth continued to help her dad with research on.