I continued to worry that we would never be completely happy again as we once were like she had promised that day in my room.But the real breakthrough...happened about nine months later 2 or 3 months before my 13th birthday when I came home one Saturday morning about 11 o'clock after having spent Thursday and Friday night on a sleepover at the home of my best friend, Timmy Driscoll. I had not seen Mom since the previous Thursday morning when I left for school. She saw me coming up the sidewalk. It had dark windows so we couldn’t see in because they were, like, tinted. He didn’t have a license plate.’ ‘Whoever it was made me break a nail.’ Alexis chimed in. Sara spoke next. ‘I didn’t see him coming until the last minute. Then all of a sudden I had these lights in my eyes and I couldn’t see. He hit us pretty hard.’ She choked back a sob as moved a little closer to Tea. ‘Do you think you can find out who it was?’ Officer Stanley answered. ‘Its hard to tell. With this kind of description,. I also saw cops coming in.I carried her to the outside patio and sat us at a table. There were beers there so I handed one to her and I held the other. When the police went past I asked them what was going on in there. He said, “The usual, we are just making sure the war did not spill out here.”“Why would anybody come here to fight?”“Exactly.”I looked at Zelda and she pretended not to have heard the exchange between me and the cop.The cops took several members of our respective families away. " That's what a firm caning looks like. He won't be sitting for a day or so. No less than he deserves, I might add. He's lucky I didn't cane his balls. God, Roger. I'm sorry about the envelope, but with everything that's going on, and the party coming up..." She looked at her watch, "tonight!" She smiled, "I think it's probably a good thing to have one less issue to deal with." Yeah. I guess you're right."She smiled at me and winked. She picked up a round leather paddle and slapped the heavy,.
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