For the most part everyone was friendly, cooperative, and working well together. There had been a bit of friction when the four teenagers paired off i...to couples, but that had been mostly anxiety on the part of their parents about what teenagers do. It had been decided that they would do what they would do with or without their parents' blessings and that trying to stop them was just bad for morale all around.As it was, Amber and Matt had been the first, as Bryan had predicted to become open. Mommy picked itup from the bedside table and handed it to me. I could see the messagewas from Helen so I quickly downloaded it and read it."It's from Helen," I said to mommy as I scrolled down the message. "Shewants me to go to John Lewis and pick up some clothes and things she hasordered online for me and she has invited you to dinner at her apartmentthis evening at 8:00 pm. I am supposed to pick up some food and wine andmake something nice. I am going to her place directly after work and. She wasn’t sure how much she’d spent, but it was a lot. Yet everything she bought she’d picked out with him in mind. When he looked up and saw her coming, she could tell he wasn’t mad, only rolling his eyes comically. Otherwise, he was looking at her in that way he had of making her feel like the only seventeen-year-old girl in existence.“Daddy I’m so sorry I’m late. I hope you haven’t been waiting long,” she said as she sat across the small table from him.Steve chuckled briefly. “I knew you’d. ” He said before moving towards the window of my room.“What do you...”, before I could get my words out, Frank had just nonchalantly jumped out of the window. To put things into perspective, I live on the 21st floor of a high-rise building. I just stared at the window for a moment before rushing towards it, fully expecting to see the mutilated carcass of my friend. Instead what I saw had my jaws dropping yet again. Frank was on the terrace of the nearest high-rise building, casually waving at.