Soon, Brenda and Shirley joined them.All through the church, people were murmuring and talking to each other. There seemed to be a few people. mostly ...hose who didn't really know any of us, friends of my parents, who seemed shocked and either angry or upset by what I'd done.This wasn't true though with any of the X's parents. Georgia, Kitty, and Shirley's mom were all crying and smiling at the five of us. Walt Connor, Jerry Carstairs, and Ron Jones seemed more confused than anything else. Mama. As soon we got into the rhythm of the spar, Samuel asked me, “So, what brings you here?”“The dead rising.”, I replied nonchalantly, almost as if it was a daily occurrence.Samuel was taken aback and there was a momentary pause in the action as he stared at me and asked, “What do you mean?”I answered, tone still nonchalant, “I was at a party yesterday. Guess who showed up uninvited?”Samuel just shot me a curious look, so I said, “Tom.”“Tom?”“Yeah, Tom! You know, the guy who had betrayed us. The. But it seemed wrong to just abandon Calvin at the last minute. We had started this together, so we were going to finish it together. Wiping tears off my face, I knelt down, and thrust my knife into the beast’s chest. Within a few seconds, the creature was dead, along with the rest of its entire species. I let go of the knife, which was still jutting out of the creature’s body and dropped down on all fours. I heard Calvin walk up behind me and wrench the knife out. Instantly I retched and threw. So Lois was out and more TV people were in.My little empire was changing daily it seemed. I expected Cheryl to be out next. I was absolutely sure her dad left her a chunk of change in his will. He felt that he had failed her when she went inside. At that time he couldn't afford the best lawyers in the world, but he got rich while she was inside, so he did everything he could for her.He wanted her to do something big, in Cheryl's case I expected it to be something helping women. Abused or.