I wasn't too concerned. After last night, I'm sure she just needed time to be alone. When her dark moods fell on her, she often wandered up into the m...untains for the day.She'd come back.After a morning spent weeding, I took a quick shower, shuddering as I dumped cold water over myself. Chase always spoke glowingly of a proper shower. There still was running water in some of the big cities, I've been told, but the pipes of the cabin had burst during a cold winter when I was a toddler, and Chase. Did Bunny tell you that Sister Clara has decided to stop being a nun? She's filed papers to be released from her vows. She doesn't want to leave the Church, just her vocation. I understand her request is being considered currently, and it is expected to be approved."When we arrived at work, I told Dad I'd be working on relocating the phone room and the order desk. He told me to look around, but not to make any changes without checking first with him. I went over to the part of the building. You know the thoughts I mean, what I wish I was doing, what I want to show her, what I want to make her feel. She should know, but I can't being myself to wake her, to disrupt this vision in front of me. Wait, my phone, why not tell her what I am thinking? She can read it tomorrow. Opening my phone I start to type some messages.I watch you as you sleep, wantingto hold you. Wanting to touch you and make you feel what I feel as I watch you sleep.I decide not to send a long message, just short. And I hadn't forgotten about her."The car's gone." Angela shrugged. She'd gone out after sunset, planning on coming back to get me for the long drive home.There were roadblocks on the highways still, the local news showed state policemen stopping cars to check for the suspects in the biggest crime to hit Sacramento in forty years. A triple homicide, including two cops. They weren't going to give up the search easily or quickly, but that would have been little problem. Angela was strong again,.