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like there was a light coat of flour all over her, and her head itched. She wanted a shower badly.
     
    When she walked outside, the warm sun and the wonderful sounds of the town greeted her. She smelled freshly baked goods from down the street, and the town felt like it was coming alive.
     
    She started walking towards the bus station, knowing she had only a few hours to get to the New Edges building before her meeting with the father she had never met. She still needed to stop at a clothing store and buy new clothes, then check into a hotel and shower before she met with him, so she picked up the pace as Jason walked beside her.
     
    “Where are you going?”
     
    “I’m heading to the bus station.”
     
    “Good idea,” he said, easily matching her pace.
     
    When they reached the bus station, she was about to walk to the counter to buy her ticket, when Jason pulled her to a stop and yanked her back out the door.
     
    “What?” She tried to pull her arm free.
     
    “He’s here!” he hissed and continued to try to pull her away. She looked around, and seeing nobody she knew, tried to pull her arm free again.
     
    “Damn it, Katie, will you just trust me. Look.” He pointed across the sidewalk, and through the glass window she saw a large man in a dark green shirt. His nose was broken and he had a black eye. She’d never seen the man before in her life. Looking back at Jason as he continued to march them across the street, she asked.
     
    “Is that the man who attacked me last night?”
     
    “Yes, one of them. Hopefully he didn’t see us. Come on, we need to get out of here.”
     
    “Why don’t we just…”
     
    “No, I’ve got a new plan. We’re getting out of town.”
     
    She stopped dead in the middle of the road. “No, I’m going to go met my BD, across town. You can do whatever you want.” She started to pull her arm free.
     
    “Your BD?” He held onto her arm.
     
    “Biological Dad, you know Damiano Cardone.”
     
    “Listen, Kat…” He ran his hands through his hair, looking like he was going to pull it all out. “He isn’t in town anymore.”
     
    She turned to look at him. His eyes were downcast and she would have sworn he was lying to her, but Jason had never lied to her, ever.
     
    “How do you know that?”
     
    “I’ll answer your questions, if you just follow me now; we need to get out of town quickly.” He pulled her to the outskirts of town.
     
    She stood there on a dirt road, watching him almost panic.
     
    “We could rent a car? I think I saw…”
     
    “No, we can’t chance going back in town. There has to
    be --”
     
    Just then, a large bus turned the corner and started heading towards them. Jason smiled at her and started waving his hands and walked to the middle of the road.
     
    To say the bus was rusty was an understatement. It was packed with people, chickens, and even a few goats.
     
    A few minutes later, she sat on the old bus in the hardest bus seat she’d ever experienced and shared her breakfast roll with the large hen which sat on her lap in an old wire cage. She smiled slowly at Jason who was sitting across from her, looking very uncomfortable.
     
    A large billy goat was getting a little too close to his crotch with its horns. Jason’s hands kept snaking down to cup and protect himself, and Katie found this all too funny. She tried, really tried, not to laugh out loud, but the little boy who was holding the leash of the billy goat was not paying attention and it kept putting its nose and horns where they didn’t belong.
     
    Jason had always been really good around kids. After getting his millionth black belt in Judo back in high school, he’d started teaching some of the classes himself. She’d taken his class one year and had fallen even more in love with him. He’d been so patient with her and the other kids in the class.
     
    She’d been the only grownup in a room full of ten year olds and she’d enjoyed watching him interact with