[She lays her head back against the headrest.]

Billy had a way of tormenting people. Me. My friends. [She still can't hardly think about what he'd done to Steve that night. If she hadn't intervened -- Billy might have been in jail and Steve might have been dead. Probably would have been, given the beating her stepbrother had dealt out.]

It wasn't really his fault. I mean, it was but...he was just doing what he knew to do.