I heard the shower start and hurried to my parents' bedroom. Tracey helped me transform the room into something that I hoped would match Missy's dream... Tracey got misty eyed when I told her what I needed. The sheets were soft and cool to my touch as I straightened them.I heard the shower turn off and turned on the dry ice machine. In no time, the bedroom filled with soft white clouds. I tossed my shirt and jeans aside and pulled on the silky white boxers I'd chosen for this night and then I lay. You have work... Where will we go? ... Really... really, just the two of us?" I stammered as joy flooded through me. "Doctor James has already told his colleagues and the hospital administration that he will be out of the country for the time period covered by those tickets my dear," he announced, clearly delighted at my surprise and happiness. "He feels that this might be his last chance to give his beautiful daughter advice and direction before she flings herself out into the greater. He still paid for sex. He still invested in this life. The life that resulted in millions of girls being used and abused every day. The same life that had costed even more girls their lives. Angel wondered if his offer to buy her a drink was nothing more than a ploy to get her on her back again. Nevertheless, Angel led the way to the bar, Dante following close behind.She sat on a stool, and Dante took the one to her left.“What will it be?” the bar tender asked Dante.“Whatever the lady would. We drank, and she kissed me on the cheek. All was right with the world, again. ****** All of this had happened just before the end of school. Bonnie went to visit her maternal grandparents every summer, and since I work for a governmental agency with a fiscal year of July-June, I was barely at home at all during June. So it was I found myself relaxing over a very long July 4th weekend, the fiscal year successfully put away, when it occurred to me I had never properly thanked Rebecca. I knocked.