We went to a movie. It was slow going for him but at least he was able to get out. I drove to McDonalds and I helped him inside. I saw the look of ama...ement on Martina's face. I stuck out my tongue at her as I helped him get seated. I stood in another line to place my order. I wanted her to be jealous. I knew I was being cruel, but I received a lot of satisfaction from it. Her shift ended and I saw the sleazy looking character picking her up. She was still pretty but oh how far she had fallen.. After a couple hours of it each night, the young girl would take refuge in drugs to purge her mind of the hate and pain. They enabled her to tune her mother out, and look forward to the coming morning when she would physically escape again. She was also beginning to use coke during the day when she could get it, trying to sustain her mental "up" feelings into more of her waking hours.The combination of her secret drug use that she hid from her new friends, and her mother's continued bombardment. It was to source new high-tech products and then sell them on to phone and computer stores. He had most of his suppliers already in place and a few customers, mainly his own chain of small retail outlets. He would soon need a team of hunters and farmers. I knew by that he meant sales staff to find new business and account managers to look after and keep those customers. Too many companies assume that the same person can do both jobs; whereas it’s possible but rare to find someone that can do. They did a little shopping, winter and other clothes mostly, and some comfort items for the house. Over the course of the summer, Scooter had become convinced that she liked the short hair style that the customer had given her with the scissors from the first aid kit. She hadn't had it worked on since, and it was getting pretty shaggy, so a visit to the hairdresser was in order. In the process, the hairdresser evened up her hair color some, lightening it a bit. It was hard to think of herself.