I barely recognized her. She had bobbed her hair and dyed it black. From far away, she kind of resembled a young Audrey Hepburn.

It was Friday, November 12th and I had a morning full of meetings, but I canceled them all, as soon as I heard the news. Annie called me and told me that she had spotted her and another girl wandering around the parking lot where she lived. I rushed over there and found them sitting by the stairwell, drinking the hot chocolate that Annie had brought out. Eva jumped up when she saw me. She looked a little weird with the buzz cut and the dye job, but I was glad to see her. She was glad to see me, too. She needed money.

Things hadn't gone well for her. When she took off with her two little friends at the beginning of the year, she thought she finally found a decent place to stay. Yet, when they arrived there, a few weeks later, Eva discovered there were conditions placed on the room and board. Basically, the guy who owned the place, told her that she could stay, if she had sex with him and prostituted for him. She felt betrayed and she ran away before anything could happen, but it took her several months to make the journey back here and along the way, she met Amy.

That was at the end of September and at the time, Amy was five months pregnant. She desperately wanted to go home to have her baby, but she didn't have the funds. Eva told her about me and Amy struck a deal with her. She would let Eva come and live with her, as along as Eva got me to pay the way. Eva agreed and set out to find me. She remembered the apartment complex where Annie lived because that's where we had given her shelter at the beginning of the year.

They found the place and started going door to door, but after a couple of rude encounters, they relegated themselves to screening the parking lot. Eva knew what Annie and I looked like, so she figured that they would eventually find one of us. They spent over a month there, hiding in the car ports and sleeping behind an old abandoned car. They were lucky that Annie had spotted them. Hell, they were damn lucky that Annie still lived there. I mean, what if she had moved away?

Anyway, we cleaned them and fed them, then let them rest. The next morning, I took Eva aside and questioned her about Amy and asked her if she was okay about going to live with Amy's parents. She said that she was and she was very adamant about it, so I bought them the tickets.