I sigh again, as I look forlornly back out into the rain, then around the empty diner. Even Charlie, the cook, has gone home for the night. "The three...o'clock crowd is really thin today," I say softly to myself. I start to wash the counter with the only clean towel I can find. The door jingles, as a man in a hooded raincoat enters the diner. I barely glance at him as I say, "Just sit anywhere, I will be with you in a minute." As I continue to wipe the counter, the man wipes off some rainwater. He gave her pills to help her sleep and pills to wake her up and the next thing she knew she was hooked. As payment for his ‘kindness’, she was sexually abused by multiple men, who all seemed to have a fetish for fucking a pregnant teen. She used the booze and the pills just to numb herself to the abuse, and eventually was kicked out of the shelter. “My God,” I whispered. “I have no words to tell you how sorry I am. Where did you go after the shelter?”“I lived with Rick. I had no other options. "When the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engines, shut down, the cats were the first ones out. They found some sand and used it. Hineahuone dropped out next ... Harold was impressed. Then Grace graced them with her presence and David followed.Nick was last."What's the tariff, Mr. Nichols," asked David."You paid to get here. She's staying. I can't afford her. Ben ... she's for sale. I need a J-3 or a Taylorcraft. Something cheap." How much?". According to Ebdon they've gone up to his suite." So? What's new?" I said despondently. "I should have known it was too good to be true. Par for the course." Kevin, I saw the way she was with you tonight. There's got to be an explanation." Well, I'm looking forward to hearing it." So we go after them," asserted Beth. "Come on – to the lifts. We'll ask them, he's in room 1104."We took the lift and emerged on the top floor. 1104 was in the same position relative to the lift as my room one floor.