It was just right for me with one bedroom. I slept on the couch half the time anyway.I started going over to dad's some mornings and helped him feed h...s animals. We would sit on the front porch and have coffee and talk. Later mom would always make us breakfast. There was something I noticed about my dad. The older I got, the smarter he got. We hardly ever argued anymore.Mom would come out and sit with us and I couldn't believe I could still see the love between them. It wasn't huggy, kissy or. Two ladies walked in, looked the crowd over, and came up to where I was seated. I noticed that the younger of the two walked with a shuffling gait, that her head nodded a bit from side to side, and that she seemed to always have a smirk-like smile on her face. When she later spoke her words were slightly slurred. I later learned that she suffered from cerebral palsy. The older of the two spoke to me saying, "Where have you been all of my life?" I replied by saying, "I don't know. I don't think. They left her corpse at the side of the road as a warning for others to stay away.It had taken her two days to recover from all the bullet wounds. After that, she was more wary and wasn’t caught again. This new ‘lifestyle’, traveling and thieving during the day, then holing up at night when the Normals came out, became a new and intense game for Alicia. She’d spent most of her life being a social creature in a social society and this was a real challenge of her ability to survive. She began to. Talk to you tomorrow.’ I added some kisses symbols to the chat and signed off. I was sad that I had missed him but also glad for the time that we had been able to speak. He responded later on, ‘Can’t sleep’ and included some kissing symbols in his chat. I signed back on and wrote, ‘Mmmmm. Need someone to snuggle under the blankets with you?’ then logged off again. I looked for more messages later that night before going to bed but nothing came through. The next day I logged in and wrote.