. It looks like they forgot you. The longer it takes them to send you to get your nose set, the more it will hurt when it is set. Do you want me to fi... it for you?”“I’m not sure I would trust a classmate over a doctor.”“Really!!!! Whichever doctor you get has probably set 4 or 5 noses in his life. I set mine up to 4 or 5 times a week. I think I have a bit more experience at it than him.”“I still want the pain killers first.”“It will hurt about the same. As I said, the longer it takes them to. I pled to fleeing the scene of a crime, but not accomplice, and I was given five hundred hours of community service, two years' probation, and a promise of expungement of the record when I became an adult if I were never arrested or suspected of a crime again.Life's not fair, sometimes. Life's funny that way.Five hundred hours before I could leave the state.Mom and I worked it out: 2 hours 2 days a week, plus four hours on Saturdays, and the family would get to take vacations in one year, two. So my visits to the stores always met with lots of attention and numerous winks or proposals that were off the chart for me.I grew up very heterosexual and was the consummate jock and never veered in the gay direction or had any inclination to go there. I was always respectful with guys that buttered their bread on the other side but was very physical with any guy that crossed my line.The reason I was so nervous about being discovered and the reason I just couldn't be found in a compromising. Well, they stopped paying for everything, actually. They cut me off. I got through last year just fine using some money I had saved up, but I couldn't pay for tuition this fall." Looking at her, Jake could see that she was getting worked up and nervous.She paused and looked up at Jake. "Did you know they pay surrogate mothers $40,000 to have some other people's baby? I mean, I had to pay for tuition and it seemed so easy!"Jake stared at her, reaching his hand out bravely and setting it on her.