And wearing panties.I bolted off the table, and threw my shirt back on, and with my heartbeating about a million times a second at the prospect of see...ng him inthe hallway, I made a bee-line for the reception area, to pay and leave.There was a little old lady in one of the chairs in the waiting room.She looked up at me suddenly, as if I'd scared her.Her eyes went from the ground to my head.They stopped very noticeably half-way up. They got bigger, rounder, andher head moved like she was. ”She slid out of the slowly rotting tree trunk and crawled low in the mist to get as close as possible to the trio of miscreants holding the six surviving girls hostage.The stench from the dirty men filled her nostrils with a need to sneeze. She fought it off because she knew it would be the kiss of death if she was discovered before she got close enough to dispatch the trio before they could react to her attack.She was only about fifteen feet from the group of huddled girls when she saw the. Like all good parents, they attended all of the school events in which Otterly participated. They tried to take an interest in her extra-curricular activities. It seemed to them that Otterly was in every after school program that existed. They sat through plays, recitals, and sporting events.Cheerleading was the hardest on them. They didn’t watch football and sitting on hard bleachers in the cold through two hours of the game was brain numbing. Other parents, shaking their heads in. Amy just sighed and shook her head in wonder. Maybe this year would be different. Maybe Jessica was entering a new stage in her life. Only time would tell.Jessica gingerly made her way up the stairs with a smile on her face and the paddle and strap in her hands. She was really looking forward to bedtime and decided to head off to bed earlier than usual that night so she could have some time to herself and her mom would have the rest of the evening to herself.Heading into her bedroom she tucked.