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     Clarissa regained consciousness slowly. Pain accompanied every muscle contration neighboraffair; even breathing neighboraffair was agony. She was adrift in a neighboraffair sea of pain. She tried to open her eyes, but was here prevented from doing neighboraffair so by neighboraffair a crust of dry neighboraffair cum neighboraffair. She felt nasty all over. The laughter of twenty teenage boys still rang here in her ears. Finally, the realization that she neighboraffair had been raped and left for dead enraged her neighboraffair enough to lend neighboraffair strength to neighboraffair her rubbery muscles. She neighboraffair rolled off her back onto her belly, and after neighboraffair resting for about neighboraffair ten minutes, she was able to pull herself forward some. She headed uphill, toward the exit. Whenever she felt her strength failing, she thought about how the boys neighboraffair had neighboraffair waylaid her, dragged neighboraffair her into the underground parking neighboraffair garage, and then had used neighboraffair their switchblade knives to cut her clothing neighboraffair from her neighboraffair body in itty bitty strips neighboraffair. She wanted help. She wanted justice, but above all neighboraffair, she wanted revenge. Each pull brought her about a neighboraffair foot closer to her neighboraffair goal. She was on the third neighboraffair level below ground. Each level was about a hundred neighboraffair yards long. One pull roughly every ten minutes neighboraffair. Even if it took her neighboraffair a week neighboraffair, she was getting out. After three hours, Clarissa was exhausted. Even her rage failed her. She wouldn't have even known she had here fallen asleep had she not neighboraffair been awakened by the sound of footsteps. She neighboraffair tried to cry out, but neighboraffair all she managed was a feeble squeak. In neighboraffair the hollow emptiness of the garage, it was apparently neighboraffair enough, for after only a minute, Clarissa felt strong hands on neighboraffair her, lifting her to a sitting position neighboraffair. She was carefully sheathed in a coat and lifted from the concrete neighboraffair. She neighboraffair managed to squeak out neighboraffair a "thank you."
     "Would you neighboraffair believe neighboraffair almost three months?" he asked neighboraffair.
     
     The submission of evidence took little time. Clarissa and Phil attended the trial, watching from the gallery. All of the boys were found guilty, and sentenced to neighboraffair two consecutive life here sentences. Phil had one arm around Clarissa's shoulder, and occasionally he would run his neighboraffair fingers over the "scrunchie," as neighboraffair Clarissa called it, that held her hair up in neighboraffair a waterfall ponytail. Clarissa didn't notice neighboraffair. She was too neighboraffair intent here on the trial.