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eyes.
    She grabbed Maria’s hand, very, very gently,
and caressed it, like a newborn baby: very delicately. The men
waited for an answer from this girl, showing impatience in their
faces. “Maria?” asked her mother.
    She looked up slowly at her, realizing the
fathers were directly behind her mom, and showed tears toward
her.
    “Maria, answer him. If you know where they
are, then please, tell us.” A flock of birds flew over their heads
and landed in an oak tree that stood in her front yard. Maria
listened to their music, to their chirping sound, and tried to only
concentrate on the birds’ voices, instead of this moment she didn’t
want to have in her memory. But the birds flew away, left their
nests, and Maria couldn’t concentrate on anything else. She longed
for some sort of diversion or trance, which would allow her to
leave this moment behind, and only concentrate on that one thing.
She looked about, listening with her ears for any chirping from
crickets, or any barking from dogs, but nothing came to her ears,
or eyes. The only thing that she captured was her mother, Darell’s
father, who stood with anger to his posture, and the other two
dads, who still had confusion to their eyes.
    “What’s this all about? I have to get back to
the fields soon,” asked Damen’s father with a voice of confusion.
He didn’t even know that Damen was missing, and his voice proved
it, made it clear to the rest of the Dads.
    Darell’s paps was too impatient to wait for
Maria to answer her mother; he wanted the truth immediately. So he
pushed the mother out of the way and demanded in a loud manner,
“Answer me, Maria. Did Darell really do this?”
    “What’s this all about?” Mr. Rodrigo asked.
He didn’t know that Jose was missing either, so he and Damen’s dad
stared at Maria in a puzzled fashion, a perplexed way.
    “Yeah, if you woke us all up this early,
Pete, it better be extremely important... Could we please hurry
this along? I got a lot of things to do right now,” Mr. Schultz
said, looking at Darell’s dad with confused eyes. Maria looked
frightened, she didn’t want Mr. O’Conner to tell the rest about
their sons’ escape from Ridge Crest; her eyes showed terror to her
mother’s mind.
    Pete put down his gun that he ran after
Darell with, and stared at both of the fathers with a smile, a
small grin that meant he knew something they didn’t. “It is of
importance, Jack, it’s about our sons. Did you know our boys went
on a little trip to New York?” asked Pete. He looked at Maria with
sinister eyes; he wanted her to finish the rest, through his evil
stare, but Maria was too afraid to say it orally. Pete touched his
gun, rifle, his weapon of sport, and showed Maria what he was
doing. He wanted to scare her, place mental retribution in her
mind, so she would think that he would kill her if she didn’t speak
the truth. Pete still waited for the reaction from Jack Schultz
first. He waited, looking at his eyes, and began to widen them, as
if he was in shock that Damen’s dad didn’t give a reply to his
question. Since he didn’t see any reaction coming from him, he
looked at Mr. Rodrigo, and waited for the same thing.
    “What ... what do you mean, New York?” Jack
Schultz finally asked in a surprised voice. “What do you mean, how
the hell could Damen get to New York with your sons?”
    Mr. O’Conner went on the highest step of the
porch, and looked out at the morning dew, on the tall weeds
standing right next to him. Before he replied, Maria looked down at
the porch and began biting her nails, started to show her
nervousness through her nervous habit. “Yeah, your boys took my son
to New York. And you know why? To become a frickin’ actor.”
    “What do you mean our boys? Damen never
wanted to become an actor. It was probably your son, Darell’s,
idea. Right now, my son is probably somewhere around the Valley
fishing,” defended Jack. He defended his son, his pride, and stuck
up for them in an