Dad never walked into my bedroom.He sat down on the edge of my bed.“So, son, your girlfriend went away for eight weeks, are you going to spend the n...xt eight weeks locked away up here playing dirges, or are you going to get on with your life as well. You’ve got a week of Julius Caesar coming up, then you’re off to Hollywood for seven weeks.”“Yes but what if...” I began.He held his hand up to stop me.“Son, if you never listen to another piece of advice from me in your life, listen to this one.. . don't bother to protest. Yourstep-father takes a great deal of pleasure in keeping his eye on me."Charlotte took Gene's birdlike shoulders in her impeccably manicured handsand turned Gene gently in the direction of the small, rectangularalarm-monitor high in the corner of the room. "Do you know what that is?" The monitor for the alarm," said Gene."Yes, sweetie, but there is a camera in that monitor, just as there is inEVERY monitor in this house," she said. Gene paled as the significance. . I ... that is ... it’s my nieces...” Abbey could not continue, and she covered her face with her hands.As she stood shielding her sad face from Joe’s gaze, she suddenly felt him patting her shoulder while he spoke softly to her.“It’s ok, just tell me the truth” he said quietly.Abbey could hardly believe that Joe was treating her so nicely after what she had tried to do. But his manner and his obvious wish to know the circumstances behind her attempted crime gave her courage to tell him about. “Whore, I know it was cold out there, but you have to realize we all own you now. You will have to do everything we want, no matter what it is. Yes, we are going to use and abuse you for a very long time. And some of those times, you will be out in the cold as you have been today.”I just looked at her and wondered why she wanted to be mean to me. I always have done everything she told me too. And now I am in trouble for it.Then Beth said, “You don’t know me slut, but you will learn who I am..