then cole 's father came around , hoping to find someone to aid the cause , and i was all over it . `` she 's lived here since ... '' he could n't bring himself to say it . hopefully , they would escape out of the back of the building . in the hood , i might be any one of them . in two days , these would be covered in white tablecloths with a bucket of daisies and black-eyed susans in the middle of each one . 