Price stepfather comfort

A park at midnight wasn't the best place for a sixteen-year-old girl, especially with her eyes puffy from crying. The police officers patrolling the area found her quickly. They looked at her paperwork, asked the standard questions. "Call your parents." Her father, awakened in the middle of the night, was terse: "She wanted to live with them herself—let them sort it out now." And then the phone. *

• The sergeant had already started talking about taking her to the station when the second officer handed her the phone. "Your... stepfather is on the line. "*

• The voice on the other end was calm, even, not hysterical. "Where are you? Stay there. I'm on my way. "*

• Fifteen minutes later, his SUV pulled up to the curb. John Price got out, spoke briefly with the officers, nodded, and signed some papers. Then he walked up to her. He didn't grab her hand. He simply stood there, looking at her lowered head and the torn sleeve of her jacket. *

• “Let’s go,” he said simply. And she obediently followed him to the car. *

• He sat her down, buckled her seatbelt, and got behind the wheel. He didn’t start the engine right away. “Have you eaten?” he asked, looking straight at the road. *

• She was silent. “Mother’s sleeping. Let’s not wake her. Any ideas?” *

• She was silent again, clutching the hem of her shirt in her fist. “McDonald’s is still open,” he stated, putting the car into gear. “Choose whatever you want. Just be careful – no vegetables on your hamburger. I know your tricks.”

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