Friends of ours will arrive here at six and together we’ll go over there. What do you think?”Grace nodded. “Sure, Sounds good. I’ve got nothin... planned for tonight anyway so why not.”Around six in the afternoon the doorbell rang. Grace’s parents opened the door. Their friends had arrived a bit early. Grace was upstairs and heard the chatter. Still dressed in her white jeans she went downstairs and came eye to eye with her parents’ friends. There was shock in the eyes of Grace and the visitors. When I came in the door one of them saw me and went for his pistol and I shot him. He dropped and the other pushed the woman away and threw himself at me. I put my second shot in the middle of his forehead.I looked over both men and saw they were dead and then I looked at the woman who was scrambling to get herself covered.“You all right ma’am?”“I am now. Thank the Lord for sending you here to help me when I needed it most.”She turned and yelled “You can come up now Katie.”A trap door in the. Katie got home just before dinner and joined the family at the table. They said grace and had their meal. Afterwards Katie showered with the bathroom door ajar and then took her sweat time drying off. Chase never showed. Katie was disappointed but still listened to her cousin’s fucking that night. The rest of the week went on like this, Katie helping out around the house and trying to bait Chase. Every night she was invited to their prayer, but Katie still didn’t go.Friday rolled around and. Mikee had gotten everything right. Now I was supposed to stay on 580 for sixty miles. I folded the directions and handed them back to Mikee."Hey, check it out," she said. I followed her pointing finger. It was a record store. But it was bigger than a supermarket back home. "Can we?"I thought about it. I had about a hundred miles of directions, but I didn't know if there were more after that or if we were staying there. But most days, Tami didn't have us on the road more than six hours or so..