"How can you fucking stand to be near me? Knowing what I did to Michael?" Because of this," she replied. "Because of how you're feeling right now. Bec...use you can hate yourself for what you did to Michael."Hate myself? I realized she was right. I did hate myself. I should never have involved Michael in this plot. I should have found a way to keep him away from all this. Instead, I'd thrust him into my scheme as just another pawn on my path to revenge.Amber? She deserved everything I could dish. “Sounds like a plan,” Lexie agreed.Unfortunately, their beach time was cut a little short by a thunderstorm that rolled in off the Gulf. But they’d had fun and they were actually both pretty hungry.“Wanna order a pizza?” Lori asked.“Maybe pizza for dinner,” Lexie replied. “How about Greek salads for lunch?”Lori narrowed her eyes and looked at Lexie. In all the years that they’d been friends, Lexie had always just gone along with whatever she wanted. Now, suddenly, she had an opinion. But since. Oh, and later on our mother learned that Dad had dropped us from his life insurance adding Dora in our place. I think at that point Dora may have stopped crying. In fact, shorty after her check arrived she headed home to Puerto Rico and was never heard from again; at least not in the continental U.S.Mom went back to work at the hospital as a nurse's aid She worked crazy hours so we didn't see a lot of her except on her day off. Angie and I went on to finish middle school and and start high. " We're almost to a stopping place. Couple three more pages and we'll have it programed so it doesn't stop time pieces if you take it off." She grinned, "We'll feed you then." She got an almost embarrassed look. "I mean ... if it's ok with you Seph." Seph just nodded and kept on keeping on."Don't you have school or something?" Ed asked."It's Saturday." Sorry, brain fart..." Ed laughed, "Well it feels like we've been doing this a week ... my hand is turning purple."And it was ... Seph exclaimed,.