And as the oldest, even though she was always distant and independent, she would touch base now and then and offer help when she could. You knew she w...rked long hours with some community non-profit, but nothing more than that about her place of work. Your sister only offered that it was a typical office environment. Just last Friday you had a twenty minute phone interview. You were not asked many job skill-related questions, which you felt was odd, but rather a bunch of questions that seemed. ”---- When Leslie opened the car door after pulling up, Phil was already waiting. Although Abe and Meg had wanted to accompany him, he’d stuck them with babysitting Debbie as they visited the homeless shelter they used to stay at.“I see you’re prepared. We’ve got the car all warmed up and ready to go,” she offered, patting the seat and scooting over.Before saying anything else, he leaned forward. “What’s your name?”The driver of the unmarked car—an Uber call—glanced in the rearview mirror.. I never did get to talk to the woman, that is, not that night. Didn't know her name, nothin'. The cops and EMTers got her out of there and to the hospital pretty quick. I wondered how she was, but after a couple of days, memory of her began to fade.One Month later:It was Thursday night, 10PM, and I was fixin' an electrical wire in the kitchen. Cal Robey, the main cook at Santoro's was pissed because his refrigerator wasn't cooling like it was supposed to. A looker, that I had never seen before,. I flushed the toilet and decided to brush my teeth. I was stalling! What was my problem?As I ran the toothbrush over my teeth, I tried to think of what the problem might be, and I couldn’t come up with anything. In fact, if there was anyone I should have been nervous with, it was Sakurako. But I hadn’t been, most likely because of how close we’d grown without me even realizing it. There had been a bit of nervousness about Fawn, but that had been a combination of who her father was and the.