The sun was setting, and the warm breeze had a slight chill. Richards car showed up as promised, as a black Mercedes stretch limousine pulled in front...of my bungalow, as I looked out of the window. The driver got out of the front seat and came around the car and opened the back door as Richard got out wearing a black tuxedo. Anticipating Richards arrival I walk out the front door and to the top of stairway, just standing there as I paused. Richard looked up to see me standing there, his stare. "I see he lied to me." He... he's out on the field raping my friend. She's a cheerleader, too. Sherry!" Don't worry. I know her boyfriend, Ben. He's one of the star players on the team. Come with me." Nichols turned and walked into the office. He snapped on the light switch and picked up a phone. He dialed and smiled just a little, grim and determined, while he waited for someone to answer. Finally, he said, "Ben? Mr. Nichols. Yeah, sure. Look, you better get over here, 'Bradford's raping your. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of not having Sammy around today was that he'd missed his bus home. He'd assumed it would leave from where he'd been dropped off in the morning. But when he got there, there were no buses in sight. By the time he found out where they were and ran to the area, his had already left.He resigned himself to walking home. It was only a couple miles anyway. He didn't want to bother his mom at work, and he assumed Raul was home taking care of Sammy. So with a. I’ll be gone before then and wont be back until around 10 or 11PM ok.” “Yeah and I’m going into work at 9, I need you to tell him I need him to shovel the snow on the front and back porches. I got the wonder twins from next door to do the driveway.” The wonder twins he was mentioning were the twin teenage girls that lived next door. They were almost a year younger than James but he never really saw any interest in either of them despite how attractive they were. “Sure I can do that, I’ll most.