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conversation. Her father looked at his wife wondering if he should encourage or discourage the conversation at this time.
    Regina sighed through the chewed pieces of burger.
    “Not really, but I guess we kind of have to at some point.” Regina responded.
    “Doesn’t look like Michelle is working today so I guess we just have to work with the information we have.” Her father commented.
    “We were just devastated when we heard and the worst part was having to call and tell you the news,” her mother said.
    That fateful night came streaming back, Regina’s parents had called her several times after her surprise call from Nikki Valentine, but Regina lacked the strength to pick up the phone and hear the devastating words all over again. Regina had just laid in bed, curled up like a child, crying until her tears dried under the rising sun. When she was finally able to pick up one of her parents’ calls her response was robotic.
    “Hello?” …
    “Yes.” To the first question.
    “No.” To the second question.
    “There was a storm; there was trouble with the phones.” Regina fabricated the weather.
    When her mother got to the reason for her call, Regina gave a weak, but truthful reply.
    “I can’t believe this.” Her eyes had been dry for some time at that moment and she managed to numb her emotion just enough to make it through the day. Regina withheld the fact that she had known for hours now that the body of her long lost friend was found buried in the dirt that belonged to Glen DeFrank.
    Regina forced down another bite of the burger that was now dripping oil down the corner of her mouth, she wiped her face with one of the white cloth napkins.
    “Yeah it’s pretty terrible.” Regina admitted.
    “We didn’t want to tell you all of the details, but hell we’re in Black Water, you can’t flush before everyone knows you took a crap around here so we thought you better hear it from us,” her mother explained.
    “She was dismembered,” her mother blurted out causing that inevitable lump to catch in Regina’s throat. She struggled to cough the piece of flesh into a place where it could go down the proper tube. Fortunately, it resituated itself in a safe place with the first forceful gag. Of course, Nikki had given her this information over the phone, but the hideous detail mowed Regina down again as if she was hearing it for the first time. Regina placed down the less than half of a burger that remained on the blue ceramic plate. Scanning the room, Regina noticed that people were staring at her and she sunk back into her seat holding her hand up to her head to cover her face, hoping that would keep people from realizing that they were discussing what everyone in Black Water was discussing.
    Regina took several swallows of her water before speaking.
    “What do you mean?” she asked, wanting to find out if her parents had any more facts than Nikki had been able to supply. But her parents’ horrified expressions made her speak again to relieve them of the anxiety that she could see was crawling up insidethem at the thought of having to explain that sentence in any more detail.
    “Never mind, I know what you mean. I…I…just don’t understand why someone would want to do that to Lola,” she said as an expression of deep thought spread across her face.
    “Oh, honey, why would anyone want to do that to anyone is the question, but it happens all the time,” her father told her.
    “There are just some plain ole sicko psychos out there!” her mother confirmed.
    “Do they have any suspects?” Regina asked.
    “Nah!” her mother spoke rashly, dismissing her daughter’s question with a prompt swipe of her hand. “Nobody around here, at least. People are thinking that it could have been some trucker going through town, attacked her and then buried her somewhere out in that massive forest that the DeFranks called an estate on his way out of town.
    DeFrank
    Regina thought to herself. Regina remembered the