Chapter 103 Section 6

In addition, Diana's mother's side is a very religious tradition of the family.Her maternal grandfather was a pastor and owned his own church in Fort Worth.As long as she can remember, Diana has been going to her grandfather's church for mass every Sunday with her parents.The girls in the mother's family, including several aunts and cousins ​​of Diana, were taught by their grandfather since they were young, and they all valued their chastity very much. Ironically, back then, Diana's parents met and knew each other in her grandfather's church, and then became husband and wife.Many years later, Diana's father met his lover again in the same church.

And just like that, Devon Glenmonds started dating Diana Zamora. According to Jay Goring, the eccentric and domineering Diana "caused Devon what seemed like endless trouble".Jay said: "I have always regarded Devon as my brother, as someone who can advise us and help us tide over difficulties in times of crisis. But now, he himself is experiencing one crisis after another." First, at a team meeting of the Air Force Junior Reserve, Devon and Diana exchanged glances and elbowed each other, causing dissatisfaction among the crowd.Diana then began to openly disobey Devon's orders, and also refused to complete her own tasks, or perform her duties.Later, the two missed several Air Force Junior Reserve trainings and activities together.Until late November 1995, Devon Glenmond was relieved of the command of the team by his superiors.

It was also during this same period of time that Devon changed his hard and simple life style for many years, grew his hair long, wore rings and other jewelry, and put on a T-shirt with a rock star on it, and used his father’s credit card installed a $2,000 stereo system in the family truck he drives.Soon, Devon bought a pager, and within a few days, he had a brand new mobile phone pinned to his waist.Devon began to take Diana to nightclubs, drank beer, went to some parties and dances, started speeding, and even drove after drinking. Devon was also getting less serious and irresponsible about his guns.Once, while playing around in his front yard, he fired a whole box of bullets.On another occasion, he punched a hole in the floor of his own bedroom.Sometimes when I go out for a drive with Diana, I also carry a gun, and when I see wild cats and dogs on the road, I raise my hand and shoot them.

The relationship between the two also had a negative impact on Diana.Diana doesn't own a car, but often drives Devon's family truck. One night in late September, Diana was driving home alone when, because of her inexperience, she lost control on a narrow lane.The truck went off the road, slid down a slope and rolled again, nearly killing Diana.In the end, the truck fell on its side in the ditch, just pressing Diana's left arm sticking out of the car window, and her five fingers were crushed and bloody.After the doctor's all-out rescue, the left hand was finally not disabled, but according to the doctor, some functions could never return to normal.

Jay Goring and Joseph Yukasha saw Devon less and less frequently.But on a weekend in early November, Devon went to Lubbock to participate in the long-distance cross-country regional race, and found Jay the next day. "He didn't say a word about the game, but he talked about another affair he had." Jay Goring recalled. "He said he drove into the parking lot of a small school with a girl, but I didn't know who the girl was or what school it was. To be honest, I didn't really listen to him at all because his words I’m tired of hearing stories with girls.” Then came December 4th, that black Monday.

If the Mansfield Police hadn't believed what Devon Glenmonds said, like Liane Burke and April Groman, if they had practiced the principle of "all men are equal before the law," they would have Won't wait until nine months later to hear Jay Goring's story -- "Tut tuk... tuk tuk..." It was already midnight when Jay Goring was woken up by the eager knocking on the window.He didn't know how long the sound had been going on, he just got up from the floor in a daze, and walked towards the direction of the sound mechanically. "Devon?" Jay whispered, opening the glass window and taking off the gauze drawer.He hadn't seen Devon for weeks.

"Devon," Jay called out again, stretching out his "hand clasp"—a battlefield rescue method learned in military class—and pulled Devon into the dark room. "what happened?" "Don't ask." Devin said, in his characteristic terse and restrained tone. The window faced a secluded back street, and Devin had climbed up and down more than once at night.Knock on the window, open the window, take off the screen drawer, open the window and enter, and put the screen drawer back.Jay's parents agreed not to ask about these things between him and his friends, as long as it didn't affect the neighbors, and they remembered to put the drawer in place every time.So, among friends, this window was called "Jie's front door".

Devon had climbed up and down at night more than once, but never this late.So, Jie asked again: "What's going on?" "I have to stay with you for a while." Devon answered irrelevantly, "Diana is here too." Devon stretched out half of his body and dragged Diana into the room with both hands.Diana was muttering something to Devon, but Jie didn't pay attention. He was fumbling to insert the plug of the Christmas tree lights into the power socket in the corner, and the small room suddenly flashed red, green and green.Diana seemed to be afraid of the light, she moved a few steps to the side, and hid in the shadows.The lanterns were actually very dim, and Jay could only vaguely see that Devon was wearing a pair of jeans and a gray T-shirt from the cross-country team.

Although it is only the beginning of December, Texas, which almost never snows, already has a Christmas atmosphere.Jay Gorring's Christmas tree is different. At the top where a pentagram or an angel would normally be inserted, he placed a model of a C-13 fighter jet.Like Devon, everything around Jay seems to be associated with "army" or "military".One wall of the room is covered from top to bottom with a large bookshelf filled with various military supplies: bullet magazines, gas masks, daggers, ropes, AK-47 ammunition pouches, manuals for various aircraft, etc. Wait.Against the other wall was a single bed with Simmons mattresses, but Jay rarely slept on it.He sleeps on the hardwood floor no matter spring, summer, fall or winter.