When I saw Mom next, she was dressed exactly like I was! Just then thedoorbell rang, and Mrs. Hansen and her husband came in! They were alsodressed up...real nice, and I just knew that we were going somewhere, and Iwas right."We have decided that you have worked very hard this week, and you deserveto have some fun, so we are all going to the theme park for dinner, andwe'll stay to see the fireworks. Isn't this going to be fun Emily?"I did not bother to answer her, since I had no say in the. It struck 12 o clock bringing with the new year. She hugged both of us.Radhika: Think I should go now. Thank you, guys.She started walking fumble in her high heels as I called her out.Me: Hey Radhika, think you’re forgetting something.She forgot her jacket and laptop bag on the bar counter.Me: Which floor is your room in?Radhika: It’s the fifteenth floor.We offered to carry her stuff until her room as she was fumbling, to which she agreed. We passed through hordes of drunk people in the bar and. That's all Ineeded. Suddenly I could move and talk. I followed her into the house andleaned against a wall where I could stop trembling and catch my breath."They're all around us," I said, "and they're closing in." I know," Hannah said softly. "When we first moved here, they scared usthe same way. It sounded like there were a million of them and like theywere out to kill us all. Daddy even spent the first few nights on theroof with his shotgun expecting to have to fight them off." Did they. ., for Sally? I gave in, and before I left him to go back to bed, I agreed to Darla's visit. I slept the morning away along side Sally. She was dead to the world, and didn't even know I was there, but it felt nice somehow. About noon I awoke, showered, shaved, and went to the short order diner down the street for a hamburger. Rather than sitting around our apartment watching Sally get ready to go off with Bob, I killed time for a while in an off track betting parlor. I had lost a hundred bucks,.