He stepped back and let me in.“Sure, but where’s Melissa? Is she okay?”We sat down in his formal living room. From its pristine state, I was sur... it got as little regular use as ours. I took a deep breath. “Dave, there’s no easy way to tell you this. Melissa is dead.”“What?” he fired back. “Don’t fuck around, Bill, this is serious.”“I’m sorry, Dave, but it’s true. Her body was found a couple of hours ago.”“That’s not possible! She went to Girl’s Night Out with Jude and the girls from yoga.” He. So happy, that he made it a point to let everyone he knew in on the details of his love life. One of those details was that Eileen liked to watch Brenda and Bill doing it. She would stay in her bedroom and carry on a conversation while the lovebirds went at it. Bill had hinted several times that Eileen sometimes participated with them.As for me, I had stopped doing anything with anyone. I still had deep feelings for Clara, but I forced myself to not mope around and pass by her house all the. I even noticed Clarisa pull off the highway, and I noticed her pull of the main road and down a long driveway and through a field that led to an old farm house. The car pulled to a stop at the right side of the house. The exterior of the house was layered in old dead vines that covered the chipping red paint of the pine board siding. "Come on in" Sandy said, as she laughed and giggled. When we entered the house my draw dropped into a state of shock. The room was dark except for the red glow. I didn't really blame her. Of course, now, Brandy was a knock-out. Maybe it was the high from the dream, maybe it was the lingering warmth from my sister's touch, but when I ran into Brandy while walking Maxie, I felt the urge to take her, to take her like I'd taken Daphne or Marissa or Alicia. To take her like Demetrius had taken Jordan.I hadn't even done more than waved a hello to the girl when it happened. Something snapped in my head. I imagined I heard the murmuring that was on the other.