That night Tara positively refused to go home to her grandfather's house and insisted that she stay at the hospital with me. I still wasn't experience... enough as a father to argue the point without the possibility of that confrontation deteriorating into a shouting match. We were in the wrong place and the time was wrong for me to risk that happening. Besides she didn't have to go to school the next day because of the holidays.I was sat in the armchair, supposedly supplied for the patients use. I felt bad asking you to saveTracy and then having you end up being suspended without pay..." Sallylooked and felt guilty about the whole situation."Hey...Come on," Jim said, trying to jolly her around and prevent the onsetof any waterworks. "I knew what I might be letting myself in for when Iworked my way in there. But, if I had to do it again, I would. I've seentoo many girls end up in bad situations like this and I would have felt farworse about myself if I had not done anything." I. "Barbara, where are your things?" was the first question. Sam concocted a story about leaving home with only a purse and telling his father that he was just headed to the store. He had taken the bus to San Francisco, and the purse had disappeared in the bus station the night before. As a precaution, he had kept a little money in his bra and had used the last of it the night before to get a motel room. And, here he was. MaryAnn was a little incredulous. "If you weren't a friend. Nicky had some interesting things to say about her observations while working as a waitress, and the evening passed most enjoyably for both of them. However, the next day would be another one for working and, as Jim prepared to leave, Nicky suggested that she might know a way he could use the car pool lane again the next morning. He smiled, and agreed that it sounded like a good idea, and they arranged to meet on the front steps of her apartment building. Nicky walked him to the front door.