They just had car trouble or a flat tire or something. They were alive, I told myself. I’ll sit up and wait for them, I decided. So I sat up that ni...ht and waited for my parents to come home. I waited…and waited…and waited. I was waiting for the impossible. It finally settled in then. My parents were dead. Gone forever. I walked over and stared into my broken mirror, my face streaked with tears. I didn’t even realize that I was crying. Who did I have now? Who will love me the way my mother had?. She went to read the paper and thenremembered she wanted a glass of ice water. She called to him andasked if he would bring her a glass of ice water. He brought her the ice water and she thanked him. He did amocking curtsy and said, "Whatever madam wants." in a snide voice. "Your curtsies need work!" She said, knowing that would make himangry. Then she started thinking that he didn't do much around thehouse. He certainly could do more than sit and watch sports ontelevision. His attitude. Richard Hink folded his paper and put it aside, then stood and walked to his back door, wondering if there was some way he could turn the misery that was so evident on Sandy's face into a furthering of his future plans for the girl. He opened the door and stepped out on his short flagstone patio, setting his features into a mask of deep, humanitarian concern."Sandy," he called over to her. "Oh, Sandy!"The teenager looked up, momentarily startled, her fresh young face streaked heavily with. I started dancing, and then the painhit, and I'm ashamed to say I passed out.The vice principal took me home, and mom took me to the doc who foundthe break. I'm in a cast now, and I guess Track is going to be a no go.There is a meet coming up, and I'm signed up for a long distance race,maybe I could still do it anyway? ****Well, the race is over, and I finished dead last. For a while, I wasable to keep up, but my endurance just wasnt up to the task. But theteacher seemed impressed that I tried.