Sometime later the police got a call on their radios. They emptied everything from the evidence bags, thanked us for our cooperation, and left. With t...at, it was both over and just beginning.I raised my voice to the officers who were leaving. “Excuse me!” One kept walking but one stopped and looked at me. “Can she call her mom now?”“Yes, sir.”“And her step-father?”“I don’t know the details sir but he has been arrested.”“Thanks.” He walked off and disappeared through the garden gate.Melissa. I told her about Laura, and that I was scared to get involved again, but that I would also take a chance. By now we were at Waterloo, I paid the cab and in ten minutes we were leaving Waterloo for Woking which is about a half hour journey. Where we were sitting there were no other passengers and Ann planted a kiss on my lips, I responded, but we both held back a bit, we were after all in a public place.We chatted and held each other, if any one had looked at us they would not believe we had. Her knowledge of flowers entirely down to Hap who had patiently talked her through the endless beauty of the land. At the thought of Hap her heart took a downward slide, without him she felt incomplete, lost. Absently Ruby examined her engagement ring, a large rugged diamond that sparkled in the noonday sun. One ring from seven brothers; they’d all chipped in to purchase the stone. Ruby had cried with delight the day they had presented it to her keeping the truth a tightly balled up secret. But Julie insisted on driving, and since itwas her car, Michael was forced to suck it up."I was thinking maybe of going to that movie Sarah was telling me aboutjust before my run...something about a hangover." Is it a comedy?" I think so, but I'm really not sure," Michael gave her a shrug of hisbroad shoulders that were very snug in one of his wife's blouses. He'sopted to wear one of hers when he found all the tops he wanted to wearof his daughter's was too constricting."I'm game. But first.