. Or something like that, Tina figured.Ethan had spoken of what he knew and suspected, giving the Ranger his own visions of what had happened the afte...noon before the murder. Maybe he was right, maybe not. Nobody would ever know what Barbara and Lisa had shared the last time they were together, but Tina could imagine the warmth between them easily enough. The love they found in each other wouldn't have been so different from her own feelings about Emily."Why do you think they took her?" Ethan. I looked up through my tears to find Esther’s brown eyes watching me in the firelight. She rested her soft head against my arm in silent companionship. I wrapped my arms around her warm, solid body. ‘Were you ever a mother?’ I cried into her silken fur. ‘Did you ever have sweet little golden puppies? Or did they take that choice away from you?’ Esther breathed a sigh of understanding and rested her chin on my shoulder. ‘I never really had the choice,’ I explained to her. ‘I want to be a mother. Then when you swing you don’t have as much surface area ready to meet the ball. Try it again.” I served again and the next time she made contact. I lobbed two more to her. Her returns were becoming more dependable.“Why did you go to Lissa without me?” The question came just before I served and I couldn’t answer until she’d returned it and the echo died.“I was really upset. I blew up at some people who were really important and Lissa calmed me down. We went to her house to cool down and talk.”. She was so annoyingly perky.The girls walked into the living room and found eleven girls sitting in a circle. "Hey girls, meet Jenna, she's here to join our sorority!"Everyone clapped and cheered. Jenna thought this was a little much, but everyone seemed so nice. She noticed eveyone dressed like Vanessa. She didnt know why they bothered to put on clothes, you could see nearly everything anyway."Sit down Jenna," a curly haired redhead said,"we were just playing truth or dare!"Jenna wasn't big on.