I'm sorry for any inconvenience that was caused ... goodnight..."With those parting words she suddenly started crying violently, her shoulders heaving...up and down. The room was as quiet as if it were empty. The only sounds were her crying and a chair being pushed back as her father rose in a hurry. In a moment he was by her side and leading the hysterical girl away.She looked up when she felt his arm around her shoulder and, seeing that it was him, she managed to sob, "Would you take me home,. But, sure enough, she saw the shadow of a man standing at the only upper-floor window with a view of the Plummer's pool. Her heart started racing and her jaw actually hung open in shock.But what Xania didn't know was that it was actually Amy, wearing a man's hat and jacket to make her silhouette look like a man's."Oh God!" Xania exclaimed quietly, as her sense of panic surged up and nearly overwhelmed her. She was suddenly acutely aware that she was buck naked. She started to cover up, only to. I noticed that several of them were staying close to their husbands, hoping to jump into their arms when the lights went off, but some of the more adventurous ones were wandering toward other guys.After a few seconds, I shut the lights off. The main lights went down, but there were so many Christmas lights and electric holiday candles on that you could still see fairly easily in the dim light. There was a general shriek from the girls as they started to scramble around. Karen, I could see, made. Although nearly twelve years had passed since Laura's death, the pain of losing her - and his guilt over his failure to protect her - had not diminished. He wiped his stinging eyes and stroked Alexa's hair, thinking how much Laura would have liked this timid girl and taken her under her wing. Laura was the same with any wounded bird or animal and she would never leave a suffering creature untended. Alexa's harsh, brutal childhood and traumatic experiences in slavery would have broken his.