„But I had to. I gotta tell you.“I wanted to ask, what she was talking about, but the way she sounded, it was pretty obvious. Before I could say a...ything, Christine started talking like a waterfall. „Chris has been so sweet“, she told me. „When I saw him this afternoon, I just went for it. I asked him, if he could help me get some things from that storehouse and he came with me. And as soon as we had entered it, I just stepped up to him and went down on my knees.“I heard the words, still I. Johnny was now three, very active and, as his grandmother put it, quite full of himself. He insisted on playing with the older boys every chance he got and constantly came home with scraped knees and elbows as well as torn clothes and an occasional shiner from their rough and tumble games of make-believe train robberies or Indians raids on the brave, but usually outnumbered, cavalrymen. It was a good thing he went barefoot most of the time, for he was constantly outgrowing his shoes or cutting. He knows that there is nothing they can do that he can't trump.His mother goes, "Darling, we both think that your seeing this boy is a real mistake." Jesus that's an understatement!" his father shouted. "That kid!" Dan, you promised to let me handle this," his mother says. What hangs unsaid in the room is this: three weeks ago his Dad gave Steve a failing grade on a test. Steve gave his Dad the finger. After a trip to the office, his Dad had had to, as he'd said, eat large portions of tasty. I’m ok. I’m just really tired,” Jason said nervously.“I heard on the news what you found in your neighbor’s house, it’s a real shame that you had to see something so horrible. I heard that the police still haven’t found Mr. Jones or figured out the identity of his victim. Oh well, at least you didn’t have to see the murder itself or the body, right?”“Uh… yeah… I’m glad I didn’t have to.”“Though from what I heard about the scene, I don’t know if the presence of a body would even be any more.