I'll be back on Saturday to get them."He returned to his van and drove up close to the porch. He got out and slid the door open. He hurried the people...in and then started unloading three duffel bags. The van must have been very crowded. The professor was coffee colored, as was another woman. The American woman was almost, but not quite white. The two children were just a tad darker than their mother was. All were tall, slim, and fine featured, and the dark woman and the sixteen-year-old girl. But it leaves Becky taking care of her bills and Steve was still responsible for half of any bills to that date. They were looking for a couple of people to work at the new PX on base and I picked up an application for Becky. I know the lady that was in charge of hiring and so I put in a good word for her. Kelly being Kelly, took her to the mall over the weekend and bought her a bunch of nice clothes to wear for interviews and if she got the job, she has some nice clothes for work. Becky. She worked hard getting this contract with the Robertson Company.The first thing she had to do was to get to know the three owners: DonnaRobertson was the one with the money and who ran the company with an ironfist, Brian her husband, and Paul Robertson, Brian s younger unmarriedbrother. After six months of working this deal she had come to know thethree of them on a first name bases. Donna was in her late thirties, andalthough Allison did not overly like her, she was pleasant to her whenshe. "Did I...?" I began."Don't worry about it," she answered, "your brain just shut down for amoment to sort things out. It's very common with abuse victims." What? Michael never abused me." I was shocked at the thought of myselfas an abuse victim and denied it to myself as well as her."As far as I'm concerned you are." She put her mug on the table andleaned forward. "I'm not saying he hit you or anything like that..." Good, because he didn't," I interrupted her anger beginning to take theplace of.