Yeah, it would be great if our problems could be solved in a half hour minus commercials. She stared down at the list she was trying to make and attempted to focus on it. People who might know something: EMTs who responded Police who responded Emergency room staff Newspaper reporter Former fire chief The person who took the picture of Daniel and Marissa Daniel. He knew something. He was hiding some key piece of information. The laughter blared out again. Marissa slurped loudly from the fast-food drink she still had from lunch and completely demolished whatever little focus Kimberly had managed to muster. Kimberly whipped her head around, ready to snap at her daughter to turn the television down and throw the cup away already when she took in Marissa’s expression as the girl seemed to gaze at some point in the distance. Marissa was stretched out, belly flat on the turned-back duvet, her chin propped on one hand and the empty cup in her other.
