"Steve, I have a confession to make," she began after a deep breath. "The state attorney general's office and the state police have been investigating...the department for months. A grand jury in Columbia handed down sealed indictments two weeks ago. We convinced the state's attorney to wait to unseal them until you had someone in place to assume control of the department. He contacted us as a courtesy but we were forbidden from mentioning it. I'm sorry." Indictments?" Steve asked. He hated to. She was good at getting her home work done and about getting herself up and going to school. If I was working she would call each night at bed time to let me know everything was alright.On one of those days, that I had worked all night, it was warm spring day at about 2:45 pm, the kind of day that make teens want to skip chores, and grown men sough off to play golf. The Front door alarm rang, wakening me as I recovered from a late nights working, someone had dropped Ash at the front door. She. Now you're being followed. He's stuck. Chet. Heknows you're looking. He likes the way you look, on top of that. But he'snot you, not like you. He's not after you the way you followed me. That'swhat's scaring me. I know the guys he's working for. That's why I need togo."She leaned and put her lips to mine and breathed:"Will you follow me?"She stood, took my hand, and led me to the couch."Someplace warm, I think." She sat me down, slid onto my lap. "It'd benice to share it with a friend. And I'm. ” Becky was surprised by how much Sherry had let down her armor. When they first meet she thought this girl was upbeat and happy. Yet as she watch and listened to this girl she could see the pain in her eyes. She reached back in her bag and pulled out a pill bottle. “Here” She said as she held out two pills. Without even asking what they where Sherry down them with a shot of a Boone’s Farm. She laid her head back and closed her eyes for a moment then continued with her story. “Then he said that.