“The day after tomorrow.”“Do you want the girls to go?”I nodded. “I think so. I think it’s ... important.”She nodded and laid her head a...ainst my chest again, seeking comfort in the certainty of my body. “I’ll miss her.”“Me too,” I said, my voice raspy with pent-up emotion.My chest was tight and I felt a growing knot in the pit of my stomach. I didn’t want to believe it. A car accident. Just some random thing.Random hurts.Some time later, I don’t know how long, the phone rang. My wife stepped. It is big and there are lots of wooded parts with paths through them. You get quite a few dog walkers sometimes but my wife and I have never been caught. As I pulled into the car park there was only one car there so I figured it was fairly safe. Getting out of my car I gathered up my bag with my pair of heels and my camera. I put the camera round my neck as there is a lot of wildlife and it would look as if that was why I was there if anyone saw me and talked to me. I wandered off into the park. "Jesus," she said. "What a fucking slut. Why don't we get rid of the nigger and go get high." Yeah," agreed Shawn. "I'm done with her."He motioned to Kyle and the two white boys lifted Shanika off the urine soaked mattress and walked her to the door. Semen ran down the insides of her thighs and dripped on to the floor. Shawn pulled the door open with a free hand and they took the black woman out into the alley naked."Please, suh!" she protested. "Don't put me out like this! I's beggin' you!". Billy was agreat conversationalist. He spent his first evening at the house in theliving room, talking to Jane and me about every subject under the sun.The semester started. I returned to my long-held regimen of eight hours aday on campus followed by another four hours of study in my room. When Iwas at the the college I was either in the classroom or in the library.At home, it was very nice to be able to study in peace and quiet. Billywas much the same way. We would run into each other in the.