They'd stare at us as we drove by, deadpan looks on their faces. There was garbage up and down the sidewalks and abandoned cars along the street. And ...ookers. Cartoonish hookers with hair piled high and skintight dresses, half of their asses exposed and nipples poking through thin tops. They glared at me as we drove past and I tried to sink lower into the front seat.The hotel we stopped at was more than fifty years old, dark and dirty. Half of the windows were shattered, the other half boarded. But they justtalked to them and he saw how his sister reacted to the news.Shortly after they'd left his sister got sick. "It's ok honey, Driverhelp her home will you. I'll be home after the lunch crowd."Out of sight of the diner she'd straightened up. "Driver I need yourhelp." You just faked being sick to get out of work, and you need my help?"They were in the house and he followed her into her bedroom, he stoodthere as she stripped off her waitress uniform to put on a short skirtand thin. After the diner my wife whispers a command to me then lets me out of thestroller, as the music and dancing begins, at one point I'm even draggedout to the dance floor for a few dances. Finally as the night is comingto an end and they start announcing the winners, third place goes to acouple dressed as Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstein, secondplace went to a Playboy bunny and an elf and first place went to my wifeand me! I'm wheeled up on stage to loud applause and shouting! I hear. It was just...in truth, you don't know why. It was a bit annoying at times though, you were the youngest in your friend circle, everyone else had turned eighteen before you.Only Layla noticed you looking around, winking at you as everyone all at once shouted "ZERO!"The grandfather clock that your family possessed in the dining room began to bell out the first clang to signal midnight, and suddenly without once, everything turned black.Your first immediate reaction was to panic and flail around.