"Could you be more specific?"
"Specifically... she and a few other friends had made plans to visit that girl's hometown. I drove her to the airport. One of the other girls' fathers drove them there. They still haven't found the girl. She was... she was pretty upset during that time. She cried while talking on the phone with a few of her friends. Her mother and I heard her crying in the next room, but we didn't know what to do. She was unhappy for days, shut herself in her room, and spent a lot of time talking to her friends on the phone, trying to find someone..."
"Did she say what methods she was using to look for her?"
"No. Probably the usual things young people use these days, the internet and stuff... Maybe she posted messages online. I don't really understand that sort of thing. It was summer vacation then, and she only came out of her room to eat. She used to keep to herself, too—drawing, making clothes, learning makeup and things like that. But she was in a good mood then. You could tell..."
"I heard the air conditioner broke down the night she died?"
"Yes. We told the police, too. We wondered if someone might have climbed up the outside wall and touched the air conditioner unit or something... Our place is only two stories, so someone could climb up. The police checked, and there were no signs anyone had climbed the wall. Her bed was soaked with water, too. We didn't hear a thing during the night. If she'd gone to the bathroom to get water, there would definitely have been some noise. And why would she do that... Her mother wondered if it was because of that girl who went missing earlier... Didn't