If anyone drove a vehicle over that bridge, I wanted to know about it. I finished setting up my tripwire, and headed to the house. When I arrived I we...t around to the front door, and went inside. Everything looked normal, with the exception of having power. After I grabbed a few more blankets and packed up my dry and canned food; I headed down to the cellar. I whispered for the girls as I opened the doors, I could hear them all let out a sigh of relief. I closed and latched the doors behind me.. Most had already left. Michael lightly stepped across the hardwood floor, checking every surface for his missing phone. He moved through a doorway into the hall, and carefully opened the wooden door into the living room and crept in, leaving the door ajar behind him. He looked to the sofa at his right, and saw a young woman lying on her side, her long, dark hair drapped over the arm of the sofa closest to him. The girl sat up slightly and turned her head to face Michael, her hair partly. I want some Podunk in the sticks.”“I guess Atlantic City is out too.”“You got that right ... come on Andy ... something small.”She was silent for a long time ... the air was feeling ‘tense.’“I got it!! Chesapeake Bay ... the launching ramp by the Liberty Ships. We can tie off at the wharf and it’s about a fifty yard hike to the phone.”“That’ll work. I need to go to Chesapeake anyway.”They stayed off shore ... the offshore islands are forever moving. Sand is washed out in storms and washed back. Neither of us likes pink. I like purple and Amy likes green. Our grandmother has this weird concept of how life should be for us. We don't want it and our mom sure doesn't want it for us."Amy continued, "But, our dad is overseas for at least another year, and some judge grandma Fiona knows gave an order in court that she has rights to extended visitation with us. Our mom couldn't fight it. Her lawyer is a friend but mom says that we don't have enough money to pay him the kind of billable hours.