I come to school nervous and excited. I have never felt this way before. Today goes by extremely slow. I get to 6th hour and she has no idea what’s ...oing to happen to her today. The end of the day, the bell rings and every one goes to the locker room and soon they leave the school. She’s half-naked in her office. I sneak into her office and she has no idea I'm in there. I stand behind her watching her. She turns around and screams and I tackle her. Lisa is struggling and I hold her down. I am. She told me that she would be home in a couple of months for spring break; if it was impossible for her to get away she made me promise to go out to Colorado instead.At five-thirty or so we put the food on the table, opened the wine and lit the candles. When we went into the family room to get our parents, they looked almost too peaceful to disturb. Mom was sitting on the end of the couch reading some report; Dad was stretched out napping with his head in her lap. Mom was idly playing with his. Sometimes there was a guest for breakfast but usually, whoever these nocturnal visitors were, they were gone by morning. Money didn’t seem to be such a problem now.Then there was one guest- I paid little attention to him and went off to School as usual, but he was there the next morning and the next, until he was there most days and Mom said his name was John and I should call him “Dad”. I got a new bike and there were no other guests at breakfast. That was how my stepfather came into my life,. At half past eight in the evening, the three of them were sat around atable laid for four. Sherry had been warned not to be late, but eighthad come and gone and here, half an hour later, there still hadn't beenany word from her. Embarrassed, Denise stood up from the small-talk andheaded to the kitchen. "We'll just start without her, dreadfully sorry,Michael." Michael smiled up at her as she disappeared into the kitchen."I wouldn't worry about it, we were all teenagers once. I'm sure a visitfrom.