She quickly moved to answer. Her heart sank when she saw the officers. ‘Mrs. Phillips,’ the taller and older lawman began. ‘We don’t want to t...ll you this, but your daughter Cindy, along with her classmates, were killed this afternoon when a gas leak in their school ignited.’ Maria Phillips passed out, unable to handle the terrible news. They recovered Cindy’s body. Her father, a man that long abandoned Maria because he could not understand the woman’s abnormal devotion to their daughter, came. "Okay ... so you all got to see daddy on fire, right?" I asked softly.The girls came away from the window, circled the coffee table and hopped up onto the couch."That was so cool!" Rosie gushed with a grin."Do you only do that when you get mad Daddy?" Belle asked."I have to be really, really angry, yes." Were you mad at me and Tink 'cause we weren't in bed?" AJ asked. Tink's eyes got very big. When my son noticed his sister's reaction to his question he immediately hopped off my leg and hurried. My best friend is Larry and I am Dave, we have been friends since thesandbox. We are still best friends at 44 and both of us have went troughmessy divorces and ended up rooming together like in our college days.But there is one big difference than college days, no girls. We bothlike women a lot but we always draw the wrong kinds of women to us asour divorces proved.Larry looks like the a typical lawyer type always well groomed handsomeas ever even with his gray now and makes a ton of money that. Jim, the store manager was so impressed at what we hadaccomplished and so angry at the rest of the employees becausethey didn't see Bobbie and me doing what we had been doing, thathe wanted me to reprise my role at meetings for the next threedays! Three morning meetings and three meetings for theafternoon/evening employees! Three meetings because he wanted tomake sure that he made his point to ALL of the people working atthat store.What he wanted to do was this. He was going to take a couple.