I park and make my way up to the desk retrieving the key, just as you'd said.I enter the key into the door and open it without knocking, I drop my bag...and make my way into the room. It's just as spacious as you'd told me, more like an apartment than a hotel room. I see the bedroom door ajar and move towards it undoing my coat and letting it fall to the floor. Pushing open the door I see you sprawled out face down on the bed, nothing but a sheet draped over your legs. I stop and enjoy the sight. As she often did on field assignments, Rada had carved an appropriate-sized hole in her heart to neatly fit the coming pain of leaving Prudence Parrish behind early on and then periodically gouged it wider and deeper as she realized it would hurt more than she’d expected. But now she was at a point where it felt like one more cut would leave her bleeding out on the floor. She had to admit to herself that, if she lost Prudence now, it would wreck her.She glared fiercely at her own reflection,. "Ever since my mother died last year, he's been really lonely. I think this party will cheer him up, though." Are there going to be many boys at the party?" asked Laurie."I hope so," said Jodie. "It wouldn't be much fun, otherwise." They both laughed."Jodie!" interrupted Jessie. "We forgot to pick up the cake. Let's run down to the bakery, now and get it. Laurie can stay here and finish decorating.You don't mind, do you Laurie? We'll only be gone a half hour." No, of course not," replied. "Bill blew out his breath, realizing that his emotions were about as raw as his daughter's. "It just seems like a nightmare. A nightmare that won't quit, and that I can't wake up from. When I look at Jill, and she looks away, or worse, looks back without any emotion at all, I just can't believe it's her."Glancing over at Kathy as she laughed and cut up with the women in the water, Bill continued, "Kathy has told me that she'll be there for me when this is over. Oddly enough, I realize now that.