"Thought Bill closed this after his wife past away?" she asked. Rick was getting a crate of bottles from the back of his truck. "He did," Rick said w...lking inside. "Want to wait outside?" She wanted to see the inside. Even as a kid, she had always wanted to see the inside. "Nah. I am old enough to go in now," she said walking towards the entrance. She pulled one of the two wooden doors open to let him in. "Don't say I didn't warn ya." he said as he walked in. She did not pay any attention.. Susan and Richard didn't understandit at all but they were pleased that Jim had finally found somephysical activity he enjoyed. And true to their hopes, they noticed anincreased confidence in Jim. He no longer slumped along as he walked.He held himself upright, looking the world in the eyes.The glow from Jim's new activity started to grow dark, however. Theclass included some older boys who were not the kind of kids Susan andRichard would choose for Jim to hang around with. The worst of. “Yea, he is the deputy commissioner for the city, so no one touches him when he does something, and he always gets away with things by planting evidence on people.”“Damn, no wonder you are such a pussy, you live in fear of your own father, you should stand up to him and show him you are a man, tradition or not.”“Well that is just it, the night my dad found Greg and my brother, part of the lecture was being obedient to your rightful master, who was him until we had our own house, then it became. Please do not die. Three months later, she did die, three days after my 14th birthday. Mom had worked out a contract with Nell and Hank that they would receive a sum of money each month to care for me until I was 18 years old. I moved over to Nell and Hanks, using their spare bedroom. Their two boys, Rex and Dan, who were now 3 and 5, seemed happy that I was living with them. For a few weeks everything was o.k., then Hank started picking on me, calling me a fag because I did not have a.