" I said," For giving me something to look forward to," He said," Your welcome I guess." So I got off and waved goodbye to T.J hoping for the best for...him.A week later I was on the subway and ran into him again. I asked him how his life was going and he said not good. It seemed that his boyfriend dumped him and he was having trouble finding work. A week from hell he described it. I said," I'm going to this job interview why don't you come along...I heard their hiring right and left over there.". ”“Kyle? Are you telling me that you finally obtained closure between you and Karen Mayes? How is she taking it?”“I’m taking it quite well Uncle Mike,” she giggled in response. “We wanted you to be the first to know that Kyle and I are engaged to be married.”“Jeezus Kyle, when a fire is lit under you things really can get done. Congratulations to both of you. I assume that you will be telling your mothers tomorrow?”“Yes sir,” Kyle said.“Excellent. Kyle, I know it’s late, but I appreciate you. Concentrate.I can't! It hurts! I wanted to block out the pain, wanted to try and do what Zai told me but the fire was white hot on my insides. All I could feel was my hand, the rest was just pain.Concentrate boy! Zai hand crushed my own, the bones were grinding against each other and that pain started to shock me back to the arm my hand was attached to, the body attached to that. Concentrate and come on out of there. You don't have to be in the fire. Come on.I closed my eyes. I found my other. So I went to the bedroom and broke the bed by jumping on it and snipping some of the wires that supported it. Now I would have to sleep with my mom! She came home very tired as she always did. “hey mom I accidentally broke my bed.” I said“How did you do that sweetie” “I don’t know I just lied on it and it snapped.” I lied“oh that’s alright, it was a really old bed anyways, are you alright though honey”“Yeah I’m fine.”“Well we don’t have the money to replace it at the moment so I guess we are.