”“Your lawyer can try using that line of defense in front of a judge and jury at your trial but I don’t think it’ll work.”“You seem to for...et who is holding the gun,” the Oriental woman replied. There was a knock on the door and Lester entered the office.“Hey, that chubby bitch ate all the cupcakes,” Lester complained. “Oops!” he added when he saw the girl detective.“Never mind that,” said Dr. Chang. “We have a problem. Go find Beulah then bring Brianna and our other two guests with you.”“Right. Thursday night, I went to bed at eleven. For the first time I started believing that Tina was really going to let me go. I admitted, also, that, to Tina, it would mean that I was going to be letting her and Sherry go too. This had happened to me before, and I knew this time would be much harder on me than all the other times had been. I knew I always had the option of backing down, of retreating from carrying out what I'd threatened doing.Friday came, and I was on edge all morning. By eleven. He just waved it off and said nothing. After the movie we walked to a local pub to enjoy a drink and conversation. We talked about everything that came to mind. When I was just about finished with my second drink I realized he hasn't touched his first. When I asked him why, Ricardo said that he really wasn't thirsty for anything and ordered just to be polite. I thought it odd, but readily accepted his explanation.While in the pub we heard more talk of missing girls making me shiver at the. Mrs. Taylor spoke softly and her clear, Normandy accent made the boy relax, as well as get aroused. Thankfully, his French teacher could not see this from the other side of her desk.“What is your name?”“How old are you?”After the second question, the bell went to signal the end of the lesson and the rest of the class got to their feet, pushed their chairs under the desks and began filing out of the classroom, leaving Mrs. Taylor and Peter alone. The mature teacher smiled and continued, noticing.