Charles had removed a ball cap, revealing a sparse crop of hair along the sides of his head. "Yes, he's bald. What did you say about him being the fen...ce?" Oh, that's what we call it when a girl leaves the business. We say she's leaving for the house with a picket fence." You mean she's... Nadine was in the... are you saying what I think you're saying?"Laura smiled and nodded, "She found the fence."We brought her home on Monday morning, Sylvia and I. Doctor Torpid gave Laura a final check and. 'Ok, give her a call and tell her to be out the front of her house and in a bit.'I did it, she asked if I was ok and I told her I had car trouble. 'Why am I waiting?' she asked.'Dunno, Ryan is up to something.' I answered.'Ok, I'll see you soon, love you.''Same here.' I said glancing over at Ryan.He covered the mouthpiece of his cell for a second, 'I totally heard that.'He went on talking to whoever was on the other line. I heard him say something about 'You remember Stella.'I was a bit. "We want you to have fun while you're living with us. We also want you to be part of the family. JR, you are being given a fresh start and you can do what you want with it. You might want to try changing. If you don't like it, you can always go back to doing the things you used to do, but you can't do them here," my uncle said.Mom looked right at me. I could tell she was concerned about me and how I would act. While driving down, I had a lot of time to think. I could try to be sent back to. ’ ‘Yes,’ conceded Tom. ‘But now they’ll throw you overboard afterwards.’ ‘What?’ ‘It’s more than just bad luck to have a girl aboard,’ noted the lad. ‘Why?’ ‘Because you’ll be nothing but trouble,’ Tom explained. ‘The crew will all fancy you. There’ll be jealousies and quarrels, probably worse.’ ‘Over me?’ ‘Yes, you,’ affirmed the boy. ‘Even if you weren’t pretty, you bein’ the only girl these men might see for a few years, well, you’d certainly look good enough after a month or two.’ ‘Years?’.