It was mid December, shortly after I arrived at school it began snowing...Heavy wet big snow flakes that continued all morning. At 11 o'clock they dec...ded to let school out do to the heavy snow. We lived 6 blocks from my school so I always walked. As I turned the corner to our house I noticed a UPS truck in front with the 4 way flashers on. It didn't mean much to me because Christmas was close and she ordered from catalogs, and it was her lunchtime and she often went home. As I entered. We talked about yesterday and everything that hadhappened while I finished putting my door back together. We talked forseveral hours until her mom showed up to pick her up. We hugged and Itold her I'd see her in Biology tomorrow, well then I corrected myself.Robbie will see her there.Later that evening while we were eating dinner, Pop cleared his throatand told me, "Rob... I mean Rebecca." He started to smile at me. "I'mguessing that we need to revisit the deal with that car." Huh what do you. ’ said Franklin. ‘I don’t mean for this to sound like an excuse, but A.D.A. Stiles was handling this and then was abducted, and I didn’t pick up the ball fast enough. We’re going to ask for more time due to the Stiles incident, but I don’t think we’ll get it.’ ‘Why not?’ I asked. ‘Because the case was assigned to Judge Harry ‘Spud’ Nance.’ said Franklin. I groaned. Judge J.B. Stone had been a bad judge, and likely dirty. Nance was barely better. He delighted in shooting down our cases,. “Horace,” he grinned, showing his teeth. They were pretty much straight with just a few jagged ones.“Nice to meet you, Horace. My name is Nicole.”“Nice to meet you, too.”“How did I get from the plane to here?”“You crashed about two months ago just a few hundred yards from here. I carried you here and placed you on the bed. Then I went out to get your things.”“Thank you, wasn’t I too heavy for you?”Horace sat down in a chair where she could have a good view of him until the drug kicked in and.