�Joy, what�s wrong? Did you have another bad dream?� Lately Joy had been having horrible recounts of that awful night eight months ago. But she couldn�t blame her; that night had shaken both of them up pretty badly. Hannah figured she was having nightmares again because Kodey�s trial was coming up in two weeks. Both of the girls had to appear in court.
�Hannah, I can�t get his face out of my mind.� Joy sobbed placing her head in her sister�s lap. She was terrified of having to appear in court. It wasn�t so much that she had to be there; she was mostly frightened because she had to see Kodey again. She knew he would torment her throughout the whole ordeal. Of course he would make them subtle enough so mostly no one but she noticed. That�s always how he was. He had always put on a front. Always. It didn�t matter where they were, who they were meeting. He would be sweet and charming to them, and the moment they weren�t looking or listening he would whisper a crude comment in her ear, or slip his had up her leg into her dress. Joy was a nice dresser when it came to dinner with her parents. She always wore a skirt or dress to dinner with them. Kodey knew this too. He always looked forward to those dinners, where he could humiliate her, and she wouldn�t, no she couldn�t do a thing about it.
Hannah smoothed her sister�s hair and gently rocked her back and fourth. She didn�t know what to do anymore. It wasn�t that she didn�t want to help, or that she had given up; she just felt that she had ran into a brick wall, and the sides were closing in on her, smothering her. �Joy, why don�t you go take a nice long bubble bath. I�ll make some breakfast, alright?� In all actuality, making breakfast wasn�t the only thing she had in mind. She had to make a phone call. But she didn�t plan on telling her sister that. If she knew who it was to, she wouldn�t have left her side as easily. Hannah felt a slight nod from Joy. �Okay then, come on. I�ll help you get ready.� She walked with Joy into the bathroom and turned on the water and added cucumber melon bubble bath to it. She knew it was her sister's favorite. She laid out her towels and then shut the door quietly and left Joy to enjoy herself. She had a phone call to make.