I thought I looked pretty good, but to even come close to passing I would need to lose my body hair, learn how to apply make up, and get a wig, as I a... required to keep short hair for work. A click shortened my fantasy, and snapped me back to reality; the front door has just re-closed.I was in a panic as I heard heels clicking closer to the bedroom, and I realized why; her purse was sitting on the nightstand. A logical mind would have just handed her the purse through a cracked door and dodged. Maybe I should have taken you with me after all.”Mom said, “Just let me take a nice long bath first and then I’ll I let you do all of the things that he wanted to do to me.”I watched as she took off her shoes and that big baggy dress and walked into the bathroom. She didn’t even bother to close the door. We had reached a new point in our lives and I liked it.I also had an hour to kill before Mom would be out of the bathtub. I got on my bicycle and headed to the address of the studio that I. My dad stayed outside searching the wooded area that led off to the fields. I had told him that I had searched down towards the caves, but hadn’t seen or heard him there, hoping dad wouldn’t go there and get eaten by that thing. Mom patted me on the back and said thanks for trying. Chloe thumped me and called me a ‘goof’ for making her go outside and look for the dogs and me. I’m back at the cave, it’s only two weeks until fall now. This time there is daylight and it’s getting colder out. It. Sothis morning, it was just me and my dad."Good morning sweetheart," Dad greeted me cheerfully as I took my seatat the table and he set an empty cereal bowl in front of me."Morning Dad," I replied. "Has mom gone off to work?" I asked as Ireached for some cereal and started to pour it into my bowl."Yep, had a meeting out of town and needed to get off early," Dadexplained as he poured himself a cup of coffee before sitting down nextto me.Dad was wearing one of his usual housedresses: light blue.