"So that's his name. I heard that Melvin is the one who pulled the knife on me, no one mentioned the name of the guy who got his nose broke."Eddie was...drunk and shouldn't have been talking so mean to your friend," she said."He isn't that kind of friend. He is with the TV show crowd." I explained."Ah, then you wouldn't mind introducing me to him?" she asked with that shy smile of hers."No, I wouldn't mind at all, but it most likely won't be here. I don't think bringing him back would be a good. Me: No, this is not right. We shouldn’t do it. I am not your boyfriend or something to do all these things with.She: So, you would have done it if I was your girlfriend? (in a confident tone).Me: No, I still wouldn’t (nervously).She: That why I had to do all the drama. You surely know that how much I like you but you still didn’t say anything. Instead, you kept avoiding me. So I knew that even if I proposed to you, the answer will be ‘no’. And that’s why I planned all this drama.Me: No, we. Even if they didn't agree with what he was planning, they hadto admit it made perfect sense for Will.For all his spectacular, material success, there had been a gaping void atthe heart of Bates' life until half a dozen years before.. He had built amuseum to his favorite rock group, The Doors. He bought the GoldenState Warriors of the National Basketball Association. He tried to acquirethe bones of the famed "elephant man." None of it filled the emptiness.The idea began forming, slowly, and took. "It's not quite that simple," I explained. "All we really have right now is some circumstantial evidence which we can't even use. There isn't any reasonable way for Dana or Candy to explain away how we located his house. Remember we only knew about Downey in the first place because I followed him there. And if I were to be placed on the witness stand to testify even the most abysmal of defense attorneys could easily discredit the testimony given by a drugged up, teenaged, dope dealer. Remember.