Each morning, she would slowly read the details of daily updates, their increasingly desperate situation. Shivering, she would take the latest newsshe...t and retreat into her bedroom upstairs and lie amongst the older newssheets that she'd been collecting.She would start with the initial article. The very first report was their sighting by a witness down Barnaby Creek, then the mail coach robbery and following that - a bank in a town less than thirty miles away.She would read through each. Kelly was there anddressed. She was just stripping the sheets off her bed. "Kelly, whathappened? Not again!"Kelly looked briefly over at her mother, but said nothing. She simplycontinued to pull the bedding off and pile it on the floor.Janice never took her eyes off of Kelly, but she started helping herdaughter. "Kelly... do you want to talk about it?" she asked."No!" Would you like to see a doctor?"Kelly stopped what she was doing. "No!" she exclaimed as tears startedto fall from her. Later that night I was planning my next day to really mess with this k**, I figured I would go out in the Brazilian cut bikini around the same time so his parents would not be home. I couldn’t wait I took a nice long bath made sure to shave myself nice and smooth after talking with hubs on the phone I went to bed. The next day I put my bikini on lathered myself up in my lotion and headed out. Positioning my chair next to the pool just so he would be able to get the best view of me I laid down. Marie Meriwether has been reported missing and you were last seen with her. They are going bonkers in the States…’ Reality slammed through me as Steve raced to pick up that phone. All hell breaking loose then. Steve grimaced at me as he finished his call. ‘Marie, you need to call your editor. That sod, Phil told them you were missing. That he hasn’t seen you since yesterday when you left the match.’ I pulled myself together and reached for my cell my mood deflating. I had turned it off before.