After I answer as much as I can, the officers leave leaving the three of us alone. “I’ll be right back Robbie, ok?” Mom squeezes my arm as she l...aves the room.Stacey takes the seat next to the bed and takes my hand in hers. A silence falls between us.After a while I have to speak “why did you tell them?”“I’m not really meant to say!” Stacey replies, looking down at our hands.“Oh, come on Stacey!”“I told them everything about that night in the house and the times before!” Her head was still hung. A sports car." Green! Is it green, Jack?" she squealed. She'd been wanting a car but her parents had forbidden it. They said she was too young, that she could wait another couple years.A couple years seemed like an eternity to the fifteen-year- old. Now here was her lover offering her the very thing she wanted more than anything else in the whole wide world!"Green, sure it's green," he said."Oh, Jack, how can I thank you--and forgive you. I thought you'd been betting again. I should have known.. Jackie laughed, “Alice knows that you’re both lying to her. It’s only a question of who breaks first.”“Then why didn’t she accuse me of lying about it?” I asked.“Because she doesn’t have proof - just really strong evidence that is pretty convincing, and she expected you to back Penny’s story because you want to protect Penny. What you said and what Penny said lined up, so she didn’t have a way to accuse you without risking a false accusation.”“So what do I do?” I asked.“You have two options.. I was in my khaki uniform. As soon as I reached his house, I parked the scooty and walked towards the door. Before I press the calling bell, a fine-looking boy in his twenties opened the door. “Come in, madam,” he said with a mannish voice.I was very angry until I saw him. He had a pair of dark brown magnetic eyes which I cannot see directly. His face was covered with an evenly grown thick beard. He was lean as well as athletic. He had a body of a boxer in a lightweight category. He was neither.