While the father continued to look for another house the mother started packing little by little. The little girl had been successful in keeping away from the father. She hadn't been alone with him at all. She wouldn't even go into the same room with him if he was there alone.

She spent many hours outside in her favorite tree. She had climbed all the way to the top and she Sits and Waits and Thinks..... She had been reliving that horrible night the father took her back to her room. She remembered the lollypop, the smells, sounds and the pain. Pictures flashed through her head. Only parts of the picture not all of it just parts.

She sits and thinks maybe it was just a bad dream but it had felt so real. She wished the pictures that flashed through her mind would go away. They will she thought someday they will.

She heard a car coming down the road. She looks up and sees her uncles car. Maybe her cousin was with them so she waits until it turns into the drive then starts to climb down. Yes, she had company someone to play with, her cousin. At 10 years old the cousin would play with the little girl. They always had fun together. While their mom's visited with each other the girls climbed the little girls favorite tree.

The family stayed for a while but the her uncle said he must go. The little girl didn't want her girl cousin to leave so they asked the mom if she could spend the night. After all it was summertime and the family was going to move away. It would be a perfect chance to be together before the big move. So it was settled the uncle would bring her cousin back to spend the night with her. He said," She must bring some clean clothes and her night gown with her when she comes back" They both just yelled and ran around the yard with delight. So the uncle and cousin left and would return later.

The mother said," well with you having company later and so much packing to do you can come into the house and help me pack." The little girl was go greatful to the mother for letting her cousin stay the night that it was a joy to go inside and help.The girl didn't mind helping the mother pack she was so happy it didn't matter that she couldn't go back up in her special tree to think.

After supper her cousin was dropped off for the night. The child thought the father can't get me if I have someone in my room sleeping there. The little girl was so relieved to share her room that she told her cousin she could sleep on the outside of the bed and she would sleep by the wall.

When nightfall came each girl took their nightly bath and dressed for bed. They read stories to each other and talked for a long time. Until the mother said it was bedtime and the must go to sleep. The father wasn't at home yet and the little girl was glad. Her cousin went to sleep very quickly but the little girl just lay there thinking and wondering if the other night was just a bad dream. She just wished the pictures would quit jumping into her head. Some of the pictures were so clear but other parts weren't. Oh well she was happy and safe for tonight anyway. So she fell asleep.

Sometime during the night the father must of come home for the little girl heard someone open the bedroom door. She couldn't see because it was so dark but she knew it was the father. She could hear his ragged breathing as he walked quitely to her bedside. He started touching her cousin the same way he would touch her. She couldn't believe that he didn't know it wasn't her. The cousin was so much bigger than she was then she knew that the father had to know it wasn't her that he was touching. He seemed to like touching the cousin just as he did when he touched her. He had his thing out of his pants and he was also touching himself. Just like he has before with her.

Her first thoughts were of relief because he was leaving her alone and she was so very glad. So she turned her face toward the wall and closed her eyes tight. She could hear the ragged breathing getting faster like it did when he touched her. But she didn't care he wasn't touching her. He was touching her cousin and she felt so relieved that she was going to go to sleep and let the father touch her cousin all he wanted to tonight.

She heard her cousin start to moan and groan just the way she did when her body started to betray her. When the touching would start to feel really good and she wouldn't want it to stop. Yes, her cousin was having the same feelings that she did when the father would keep touching her.

Then all of a sudden the cousin awoke and started yelling at the father to leave her alone. Telling him he wasn't supposed to touch her that way. But this didn't stop the father he just kept on trying to touch the private parts of her cousin. He whispered for her to lay back and relax and she would like it if she let him keep on touching her.

He even told her she could touch his thing. He tried to put it up to her mouth and move it across her lips like he did to her but her cousin was older and stronger than the little girl and she pushed the father away and started yelling for the mother to come and help her.

Before the mother came into the room the father had put his thing back into his pants. When the mother came in the cousin kept telling her what the father was trying to do to her. This made the mother so mad that she grabbed the cousin by her hair and drug her out of the bed and into the living room. All the while she was asking the father what was going on. The cousin said," He was touching my private parts and he's not supposed to do that." She even told her about him trying to put his thing on her lips.

The father looks at the mother and calmly tells her that he wasn't doing that. All he was doing was tucking the covers under the mattress so they wouldn't kick them off during the night. Well when the cousin heard that, she yelled and called him a liar and the mother slapped her hard on the mouth telling her she couldn't talk to her uncle that way.

While all the yelling and hitting was going on the little girl just sat in the bed wishing that she could tell the mother that the cousin was telling her the truth. But instead she just sat in the bed oh so quitely. She was always told the mother wouldn't believe her if she told her about the games the father played with her. And now she knew that even if she told the truth about the games that the mother wouldn't believe her.

When all the hitting was over the cousin said she wouldn't stay there anymore and wanted to go home. So as the mother left the house with her cousin the little girl felt so guilty for not telling her mother everything the father was doing to her cousin. The father came over to the little girl after the mother left the house to take her cousin home.

She was crying because her cousin had to leave and she was alone with the father again. He whispers in her ear," I told you she wouldn't believe such stuff about me." And he told the little girl to get back into her bedroom. As the little girl turns to go back the father finished what he was saying. "We have time for a little game before your mother gets back home."

The girl had thought she was safe and now she had to play one of the fathers games with him. He said it would be a quick one but the mother stayed at the uncles for a very long time. The father had her play more than one game that night. The little girl was exausted and the pain was so bad. She prayed to God to let her die.

When the father left her she lay in bed and quitely cried. The Child Sits and Waits...And thinks. Now she knows the father will play his games whenever he wants. Why wouldn't the mother believe her cousin? Her cousin had told the truth. Why would the mother get so mad? Now she knew the mother would never believe her either. The child heard her mother return. She hear the mother and father talking softly. The child sleeps.