Bob went to the kitchen and poured two glasses of white wine. He handed me a glass before turning on some soft music. Then he sat next to me with his ...lass in one hand and placed his other hand on my knee. “So your roommate is away for the holiday?” I said. “Yes, Jimmy went home to be with his family for the holidays. We got a great deal on this place. It was almost as cheap as living on campus in a dorm and much more private,” Bob explained. “I work part-time at a clothing store and this is. At first I thought it was a bit of a lark but if it had a chanceof keeping me out of Borstal I decided to take it seriously."A week later that same woman and Henry came to where I was beingdetained, sat down with me and made me an offer. It was so strange, soridiculous, that I laughed at them and told them to stuff it. Still,they seemed completely serious. They said they'd give me a day to thinkabout it."Looking around at the dismal walls of the cell that night the thoughtof the alternative to. The monster pieces were all the same, differing only in movement ability, and the other side was made up of knights, squires, and pages. The human side could only take out the monsters under certain conditions on a board that varied in its environments based on a dice roll.Knights could take out enemies on the plains, squires on rocky ground, and pages were effective everywhere else. As he learned more about the game it got deeper. Often, he learned after losing. Axel always lost and so he. Why, you may ask? I had to find out the hard way. Aunt Gamina, the ever-smiling, polite and friendly, church-going Jamaican-American matriarch was really a domestic tyrant. At home, everything had to be done her way and her way alone. Cross her and she’ll be the death of you, my uncle Lowell warned me. I thought my uncle Lowell was joking, and in hindsight, I should have known better and heeded the old man’s warning. I guess my attitude in those days could be considered the ignorance and.