He kissed my forehead and let me up.“That’s fine,” Matt brushed my hair back. I didn’t wear it at all complicated. Wash it. Brush it. Leave it... I had fair brown hair that hung blandly straight. Eden fought for hers to sit like mine did. Bitch. I laughed.“I was planning on dropping the two of you off at the service entrance and then finding somewhere to park,” Eden worried, “But then you had to go Matthew on her.”“In her,” He chuckled and rubbed my cheek, “Less messy.”“Problem solved, yes,” Eden. Then, they both went to shower and change. At about 11:00, they were ready to go."Hand me that spoon, would you?" Elise was in the kitchen helping her mother fix the dinner. Alexa was there."Here you go." Alexa handed the spoon over. "So, Warren and Sophia are coming?"Elise sighed. "If they haven't killed each other by now. They had a huge fight in the psychiatrist's office on Monday. And, I talked to Sophia yesterday and Warren is driving her up a wall. You know he sprained his ankle? Well,. I told Caitlin what he'd said."You're not taking me straight home," she said."What did your mother say?" I asked."She just wanted to make sure I wasn't traumatized by the police," said Caitlin. "You know my mother." Indeed," I said. "So you want to stick to the schedule?" Of course I do," she said. "I only have one more night with you. I'm not giving that up."By that, she meant the fact that we had planned on staying our last night in Death Valley National Park. To that end, we stayed on US 95. I'm... " No matter how hard she tried, Jay could not say what had happened."Oh, I understand, sweetie. That time of the month, eh? I always get emotional, too, when it's my time. Are you having bad cramps?"Jay was horrified that anyone could think she had a period... though, as a woman, she suddenly had the sinking realization that she would have to get used to that. Come to think of it, she did feel a searing cramp deep in her abdomen. Odd that she hadn't noticed it until the young woman had.