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I HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE MY FAMILY AWAY ON VACATION TO FLORIDA. DISNEY-WORLD WILL WASH AWAY ALL THE TROUBLE THAT'S GETTING TO ME...BUT MY SON SAYS THAT GIRL IS NOT AT COLLEGE...HE IS SAFE...BUT WHAT OF ANDREA? AND WHAT OF HER DAUGHTER?

-RANDY ALLEN-

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Andrea tossed and turned in her bedsheets. Infact the bedsheets were soaked in her sweat. She was dreaming that she was lying in a coffin and all she could see up above her was the inky black of the night sky. The constellations were there in all view to her.

It was cold. It was icy. And there was the whispers in the icy air that extended from her breathing through her blue lips.

She could feel that something was willing her to give in...or give up completely and die.

The loss of her life was close like she was experiencing it over and over.

The black veil of death with it's black rotting teeth and a breath that was so rancid the air was tainted for-ever and a day.

And then, as she was falling...coffin in all...she could feel the pit of her stomach churn and rise up and she then...

opened her eyes...

The bedsheets were tangled around her. She rose up and pushed back her hair out from her eyes and swung her legs to the cold grey carpet of her bedroom.

"Mom?"

Andrea looked up and frowmed to see her 16 year old daughter smiling at her from the doorway, "Mom, you not up yet? You are gonna be so late for work"

"It's okay Sadie...I'm not gonna go in today"

Sadie, whose hair was like goldern flames and reached her waist came forward clutching her high-school bag, "Why not? You sick?"

Andrea shook her head and stood up, "No...I'm gonna work from home"

Sadie watched her mother slip on her bathrobe, "I heard you talking in your sleep...just wait till I tell..."

Andrea tied the cord around her waist and looked at her, "tell who...?"

Sadie looked flummoxed and started to backtrack, "No body...look I'm miss the bus"

"Tell who...SADIE TELL ME!"

Sadie was open mouthed in shock...her mother never raised her voice at her like that.

"Gee...mom? What has got into you?"

Andrea tried to laugh it off and gathered up her washing from the basket, "Nothing...never mind me...you just get to school"

Sadie nodded and crossed the landing and went down the stairs. Andrea threw the washing into the corner and then went into the bathroom to rinse her face.

She dried her face with a towel and went back into her bedroom and peered out of her frenchdoor that went onto the veranda. She could see Sadie walk up the pathway and went across the street where the yellow school bus was pulling up and it's door was sliding open.

Andrea shook her head and sighed and then went to her briefcase and pulled out her paperwork.

She looked at the twisted smouldered dictaphone and turned it in her hand.

She needed to speak to Randy...

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Sadie was on the school bus. She turned back in her seat and spoke to Cecile and laughed, "Hiya...you taking Patrick to the dance?"

Cecile smiled, she lowered her top and let her cleaverage show, "I was with him last night...got him real hard"

Sadie laughed.

"What about you...what about...what's his name again? The boy you always go on about and we never see...?"

Sadie smirked and toyed with the chain around her neck that her boyfriend had given her, "He'll be there...he's always here..."

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