Jenny and Carly were in their room gossiping as usual and Elisa was in her bedroom, doing her homework. Normally she and I would watch TV and do our h...mework together, but she had told me that she had a lot of work to do and needed to focus. The fact that she hadn’t even looked at me when she said it made my heart ache. Finally I decided that I had to talk to her. Something was wrong and I needed to know. I should have talked to her the night before, but I was too confused to think clearly. I. She leaped out of the car with a flashlight and started running to the area, shining her light into the ditch as she ran. Barbara put on her flashers, got out and began running after her.Pete saw them stop and did a quick u-turn to bring the SUV's lights to bear, while getting on the radio to alert his partner to where they were. John lit up the police cruiser's lights and headed for them, while alerting police dispatch that an ambulance might be needed quickly.When Barbara finally saw her son. She looked up at him, and he grinned. He nodded off toward where she’d pointed, and said “Let’s go.”Seeming to understand, she took off at a lope, leaving him behind.By the time he got the horse out of the little group of trees, Little Flower was nowhere to be seen.She wasn’t hard to follow, but he realized that was only because she was making it that way. She could have taken a path that left little or no evidence of her passage, but she just pushed through the prairie grass, leaving it bent. I knew that Anne would never stray. In fact, she was a virgin when we married."Well, Rick, like my wife, for example.."Rick smirked. "You mean Anne?"Rick had met Anne at a few business functions. Certainly, nothing untoward occurred. Anne is always the epitome of propriety. Not that she isn't strikingly beautiful, but she masks her 5 foot, five inch, 115 lb. frame and 35-21-36 figure in expensive and conservative attire. One of my unspoken complaints has always been that Anne's delectable ass.