Only once did Scotty ask Vanessa to tell him everything that had happened from beginning to end.
It was the next evening and he told her that tomorrow they would need to go to the police station to make a statement, but before they did he needed to know the details.
The idea of making a statement—both at a police station as well as to Scotty unnerved her. What had been done to her took her to a place that she hadn't glimpsed since the death of her mother.
One day her mother had gone to work and had never returned. Vanessa had learned a short time before that her mother had been prostituting to help move them out of the ghetto and to help pay for her college fund. She had been so angry with her mother, had even stopped talking to her for a time. She had barely had time to make it up to her before she was gone; raped and murdered while working on the streets.