I wouldn’t want you to do something that would make you look bad. I just thought it would be great to have you all here. It’s the first episode wh...re I get co-star billing, and...”“Hey, Lucy, un-bunch your panties!” Lynn laughed. “Ashley can come, and Danny and Helen will also make it work. Three days alone here won’t kill me. I’ll make them go.”“Would you? It would really mean a lot to me, you know, after my screw-up last year, if you guys could show up. I can get you studio passes, and you. If we did nothing to Mr Bitterman, he’d leave us alone. We’d already been ‘paid’ more than forty thousand dollars to maintain our silence. Evelyn was of the mind that both Kathy and her grandfather be made to pay and the money we’d received already had nothing to do with it. It was just the right thing to do.“Life isn’t always about doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s about doing the practical thing that minimizes hurt to others. If the right thing to do is to go to the police about. One thing I did notice was that Cindy had stopped calling Vicky Nana and had started calling Christy by her given name. When I asked Christy she told me that they were trying to get her to be comfortable with it so that if she had a problem she could go to either of them as a peer. She still called me daddy but every now and then she would call me Jake which was fine by me. Another thing that came to my attention was that Vicky had started to drop by more and more often. At first I didn’t. The only thing I knew for certain is that I had to clean up and change my bedding so mom wouldn’t know what just happened.I changed my bed and went back to bed, the taste of my cream in my mouth and thoughts of my mom rattling around my head as I fell back to sleep.When my alarm went off for me to get up for school, I rolled out of bed to start getting dressed. I got halfway dressed when I realized I was still wearing mom’s bra. In that moment, everything that happened last night jumped to.