The book, Child's Play, was engaging enough. It chronicled the relationship between a girl named Lily Davis and her high school English teacher, who came to be a mentor to her during his own messy divorce. Although unstated, the two developed a dependence on each other that was not so much romantic but conditional. After moving to Texas by herself and soon after starting to date Dick, January avoided making the connections to her own life. She grew restless with the lines on the page and began to strum her fingers on the table, gazing out the window. The day was bright and getting hot, the sun blinding as it reflected off the dashboards, mostly of pick-up trucks, in the lot. Lost in a daze, January didn't notice that someone had been standing by the table for a moment waiting for her to look up.