She walked over and gave the body a good kick in the balls. The boys cringed.When she kicked, his wallet flopped out and a set of keys on a chain slid...out of his shirtneck."You know ... somebody should search that," said David."I'll do it," said the pilot, "I owe him a few indignities."From the right front pocket she recovered a money clip with more than three thousand dollars ... the left front had a set of car keys and set of keys that said BOAT. She pulled off the belt and discovered it was. Claire wasn’t a cool kid but she desperately wanted to be one of them. But, as she turned and said “hiya” to me the cool kids up the back started talking in low voices and I was sure I heard, “What a little freak talking to that guy”, and “Scummy little slut”. I knew she would never get to be a cool kid now. I said hi back to Claire as Mr. Jameson told us all to be quiet and started the lesson. We were doing algebra which was rather simple to me, (Not being bigheaded but I am rather smart) so I. That one single phone call sent her life plunging into darkness and depression. A semi- truck broadsided her husband’s vehicle as he pulled out of the restaurant parking lot, killing all passengers instantly. Images of her husband Alan and her children, six-year old Alicia and eight-year old Alan, Jr. mangled in the minivan flooded her mind. The pain was unbearable. Gloria’s fall wasn’t sudden, but within the two years since the death of her family she’d gone from an advertising executive to a. She was Might Mouse defender of truth and justice, and that was her current trouble. She had earned her “Might Mouse” nickname. Like the cartoon character, she saw herself as a crusader. She had always believed in her only infallibility without reservation, but that arrogant confidence was gone. Two women had fooled her, and they weren’t even working together. The betrayed wife who destroyed her husband’s suicide note to preserve the secret of his illegitimate birth, and the girlfriend who was.