I thought about bills and cleaning out the refrigerator. I didn't want to come yet. I didn't want to come until the right audience saw me.Becca was ju...t theatre. I wanted to be seen with her. I wanted Susan to see how I made love. Susan worked on the shear line and I only saw her when we were clocking out or taking a coffee break. I would talk to her when I could. She was forty-one, ten years older than me, but whenever I talked I felt the flutter in my belly that told me it was love. Susan had. I couldn’t give him a tip like this morning but I could tease him a little. When he got near our chairs, I sat up and pulled the back of my chair up. I stretched my arms out the back, pushing my breasts fully out. Eric’s eyes grew wide as he gazed at my chest. ‘Oh Eric, you’re back, great. Would you be a dear and get some drinks for my friends, Aline and Rene, please. Aline, do you guys know Eric? He’s the best waiter here. He gives the greatest… service,’ I said with a smile as I reached out. Her Mother glanced at the payphone she’d been about to use. Did it work? Would her call get through? Would someone come to get her? How many hours before they arrived? Too many and too many question and she didn’t really want to explain why she was where she was. Hell nearly forty years later she hadn’t done that to her own daughter, even after admitting duping the Man who’d helped her.“Alright, I need to get to Hollywood, are you going that way?”“Yes, it’s not far from where I live. I’m headed. The woman who I had never seen before was injured. Mostly superficial I decided by her actions and the look of them. She was bloody but the cuts didn't appear to be life threatening.At about the same time the couple from the campsite beside mine showed up. I don't have a cell phone so I suggested they call the ranger."I anticipated what would be coming later so at that point I interjected, "Since I didn't know if it were an accident, or something worse I suggested the ranger. The ranger would.