"Mijo, wake up. Wake up." Ugh," I groan as I wake up with a splitting headache. I couldn't havebeen asleep for long, or maybe I have. I've drifted in ...nd out of sleepso often I can't even count the hours or the days, someone usually hasto remind me."The doctors are going to take you off of the drugs now. You've beenasleep for the past week!" I have?" Yes, the doctors say it is safe to do it now." It is?" I ask still so groggy all I can do is ask two word questions."Yes." So it's almost time for. He had better go along with it, she thought - goodbye Douglass if he did not!She looked out of the window and saw that it was still dark. It would not be for long, though, she thought, before the eastern sky became paler with the approach of another rosy dawn. Time for her to grab her weary mind and body a few hours' desperately needed sleep. She still had a job to go to and without the million from the old man, she would need to do her level best to keep it.The idea of being kept, for the. Darting forward, she unlocked the door and stepped back to see what would happen. When nothing happened, she moved forward again and this time opened the door. Stepping back, she took a defense posture waiting for the door to slowly swing open.When the door had swung open, it revealed a young oriental man twenty-five years of age standing in the hallway. He looked over at the defensive posture of Ling and smiled at her. With a crooked grin and a wink of his eye, he pointed at her and said,. Mythoughts turned back to the days when I would watch my sister Sarah takeout her curlers from her hair and then proceed to form it into a beautifulcomb-out, I liked it when she teased her hair and then smoothed it into astyle, and an updo was always my favorite on her.My mind was brought quickly back to the present as Terri was telling,"Ashley your nails are such a mess I will need to work a lot here to fixthem up and have them looking pretty for you."I looked down at my hands as Terri was.