“Now, I simply can’t wait for Dawn to come home so we can be together as much as possible for the rest of our lives.”“Well, she’ll come here...” Kim corrected. “Her ‘home’ is a few blocks away.”“You know what I mean.”“Of course I do, but I wonder if that’s about to officially change. Will she be moving in here permanently?”I shrugged. “Wouldn’t make much difference, would it? She already spends almost every night here as it is.”“Almost every night, but not every night. For one thing, you usually. It had been converted into flats by putting up partition walls to make a living area, bedroom, kitchen and a shower alcove. The furniture was the result of bargain hunting and a bit on restoration work that I did myself. I must say the place looked fine as far as I was concerned. ‘I’m Rowena Talbot, by the way,’ the girl said. ‘You can call me Rowe. What’s your name,’ she asked. ‘George, and you can call me George,’ I replied heavily. She rose and waddled over to the kitchen and looked in. ‘Not. So I am watching the clock,waiting for Math class to end at EAGLES Academy, a special school fortrannies located in former retail space near Santa Monica Boulevard andHighland. I haven't learned anything today. My classmates are too busy textingeach other and their after school hookups to pay any attention to ourlesson, and the teacher is just reading from the book. It's the samestuff I learned last year, but this is remedial math. I am classified asa remedial because I am a high school drop. “What do YOU want?”I held out a gift. “Since I cost you a pair of boxers, I thought it only fair I replace them with these. They’re the same brand, and same size. I hope that’s OK.”He snatched them from me. A faint sneer had crept into his expression. He looked them over then carelessly tossed them inside. Then he looked at me.“Get your faggot ass in here,” he said, a tone of disgust in his voice. He pushed me past the entrance to the kitchen, a fact that registered in my conscience with a.