I have to leave early in the morning to build my new home.” Mr. and Mrs. Mendoza smiled approvingly and thanked me for coming. Turning to include An...a, I finished my goodbye with, “I’ll be back to see you when the house is finished.”Walking back to the Drovers Inn I thought that perhaps I had overdone it today, but just as quickly decided that I was supposed to be fifteen years old. What I’d done tonight was certainly within the bounds of acceptable actions for a young man full of testosterone.. Leaving him the duty to collect them all right before the store closed at midnight. Distracted by his thoughts he was suddenly brought back to reality by a sudden screech of tires. “I'm so sorry” he heard the blonde scream from her car. Alex moved out the way as she pulled into a parking spot in a rush trying to hurry before the store closed.Alysha quickly got out and reached into the trunk of her car to grab her bags, as Alex walked up to her “You really need to slow down, you almost hit me. He’s the new Marketer, the guy that cold calls companies and sets up sales visits. He’s not even all that good at his job; I think the calls that agree to visits are just trying to get off the phone with him.Trying to get away from him.I can’t do that. I have sit here in my maple wood-veneer prison and take it.The laughter lowers to a chuckle that creeps around the bottom edges of my desk, rising like a murky, unclean tide. I pull my feet up and put them on the legs of the chair. I’m wearing a. "It seems we have two choices," I say after a long silence. "Either to besecluded in private, or to become public property."And then the dam is broken. Andy is upon my shoulder, his tears coming infloods."We are property. She owns us, Kris. Meta'en owns us. There's no escape isthere? There's no escape." No," I echo him hollowly. "There's no escape." The taumra'a is softer now, more lyrical. We are lying on our backs closeto each other. Loteame is quiet, his tears.