The device had been upgraded from vinyl to digital but the selection list was the same and songs cost a buck a pop.“I punched up ‘I Only Have Eyes...for You’ by the Flamingoes,” I said. “Romantic enough?”“I like that song.”“It should be next up after ‘Ain’t That a Shame’ wraps up.”Our server took our orders -- bacon double cheeseburger, onion rings and large chocolate malt for me and a cheeseburger, fries and vanilla shake for Helen. “I remember coming here as a teenager, too; especially after I. Stupid college kids doing what stupid college kids do. But they were in high school? I suddenly felt really uncomfortable and really old. These kids weren’t ten years younger than me, they were closer to fifteen. The fact that they were eighteen didn’t change the fact that they were all drunk, and as the only legal adult here, I would probably be held responsible if anything bad happened to any of these kids. But again, I was too drunk to care too much, and I was already in the hot tub, and. Theyhad to have covered up their daughters death, fudged it over somehowuntil I could be delivered to them. I heard laughter from one of theother girls and was brought back to reality. As one of the girls wastelling a joke, I laughed with them and made the most of dinner and mytime here.As much as I wanted to escape, I knew there had to be a guard at thelimo, and maybe others outside the restaurant, just waiting for one of usto try to make a break for it. I didn't intend to make that mistake. If they want to keep you for a few months they can, if they want you for years they can do that too.’ He sat beside her, rubbing her covered stomach.’Who told you that you had to come here?’ ‘I was taken when while I was asleep in my bed at my parent’s house for the holidays.’ Tears swelled in her eyes, as her voice cracked. That night was all too real for her, the masked men in jet black suits, the long drive to some abandoned building overlooking the docks. She wondered if her father even.