The girl with the copper hair and the silver voice.
Fletcher met Heighleigh on a trip with Uncle Mick to New Orleans. Fletcher was 15, Heighleigh 14. She was working at a little backwater pub called the Rattlesnake as a dishwasher, which is completely unspectacular in itself. However, after dinner hours were over and all the drinking men came in, her boss would let her sing. Fletcher ended up staying in Louisiana for longer than expected, playing music with Mick and Heighleigh until the early hours of the morning. Heighleigh's mother did not approve. She hated Fletcher. If for no other reason, than for the fact that her little girl was making decisions on her own, and enjoying herself. But Fletcher left after a little while, and Mrs. McCullough forgot about her smiling hippie nemesis. That is, until Fletcher needed somewhere to stay on the trip back to Arizona from the east coast, a few years later. Heighleigh was to help the kid out in finding money and a place to live temporarily, but Heighleigh ended up being the one in need. Her mother wanted to send her away to a hopital, and Heighleigh wasn't having any of that. Of course, no one can really say whether or not Heighleigh is mentally unstable. It didn't really matter, Heighleigh didn't know and Fletcher didn't care. The freckle faced songstress decided that she would run away, and go with Fletcher to Arizona. As Fletcher was helping her pack up a few things in her mother's little house on the riverside, things got ugly...
