She didn't want to live with either parent and was thinking of getting a place of her own, but to make it work she'd need a roommate. I wasn't sure wh...t my plans were. I wanted to go to college, but I was one credit short of graduating high school. Melissa convinced me to move in with her and laid out a plan for me. She knew of an alternative school where I could go part time and get the credit that I needed to graduate and one of her friends was willing to hire me on at a printing press that. " Oh, that's all right, I was having a bad dream anyway." I just wanted to know if you were a private patient. If you are then I'llgo and do another room." No I'm National Health." That's OK then."I looked at the clock on the wall. It was 5.30am!She switched on the floor cleaner again and I tried to block out the noiseby putting a pillow over my head.Eventually she was finished and then it was quiet. I had just nodded offand then there was an almighty crash just outside my door. It sounded. Johnson” and “How are you Mr. Johnson” and “Can I get you coffee Mr. Johnson.” When I looked at my Dad funny, he just winked at me and shook his head to keep me quiet. He talked to a couple of guys that were obviously the construction people, and then had a word with a guy wearing a tie who was obviously sales, and then took me back out to the truck.“What do you think, Chuck?” Dad asked.“About what, Dad? Those guys were all over you like they owed you money or something,” I said.Dad just. There were alsorings pierced through her eyebrows and nostrils. She wore thick blackeye liner and black lipstick. Even though she looked slightly like agirl as she got close I could see by the bulge in her throat that shereally was a boy. As he came close he said, "I'm sorry girls but you must be over eighteento come in here." Amy laughed and said, "We are." To which the sales clerk asked to seeID. When I showed him my driver license he checked it over carefully lookingto see if the picture.