It was the only time anyone might have mistaken her for the traditional type of girl."Yeah," Gavin replied excitedly. "I know the convention is this w...ekend, but Mist is having a sale on a new game that looks badass!"The chat program that they usually used suddenly lit up her task bar with the link Gavin just posted. Suzy immediately clicked it.Sure enough, Mist was having a special for a new MMORPG where instead of playing heroes, you played monsters. It was supposed to be the usual sixty. Jason continued:"My dad's like that. His soul is damaged because he hates everyone. It's not just me and Cecilia that he talks like that about, it's everyone, my mom, my sister, my cousin, everyone. I guess ... that night, I just got tired of it. I got tired of him and his stupid scams and his idea that money is more important than people. I just got sick of it."One by one Jason identified the other cassette tapes as the court played excerpts to demonstrate their relevance to the case. Finally. "Snake smiled back, "I think I know why, Maren. It's your female hormones.It's why girls cry more easily than boys. At least that is what my Dadtold men and he is a medic on an ambulance."I wiped my tear away and decided to change the subject. "What's up withthis Lance character? Is he your enemy, nemesis or what?"Snake laughed, "Actually believe it or not, he is a friend. We alwaysjoke around threatening to fight, but we never really do it. He showed mearound town when I first arrived. He. ” She looked at me, “What?” I looked down and spoke. “I miss you my friend.”I’d had a rough day with some crawl jobs and generally dirty old equipment ill kept needing too much labor to get running again. That was the fare in winter with furnaces never tuned up in the summer, frankly needed replacing. I know I smelled strong like diesel and my clothes were grubby dirty. I couldn’t have been much fun to be around. But we drank the beers and she left to go get another before I was finished with.