Then it became your problem. Most people never risked the streets even in the daylight. They lived in fortress like skyscrapers that had security team...s to keep nightmares out. They were self contained in their homes. Addni thought of them as voluntary prisoners. It was better to live with some risk than to live in a cage, no matter how soft the cage was.There were people that lived outside of the protection of the skyscrapers. They were just as dangerous as the nightmares they created. ‘Next time?’ I wondered as I finished myself off messily and we blew each other goodnight kisses. When I next called, well after midnight on Friday night, it was Simon’s last night in London. Claire’s voice was soft and unsteady as if she was drunk and was hardly capable of telling me what had happened. Eventually after a lot of persuasion she began to tell me the details. "Oh Tim… he fucked me so much... I just need to sleep now!” “Where did he fuck you, Claire?” “On the kitchen. (Was probably one of the worst movies ever made without one of the Baldwin brothers in it) I decided to head north. I knew of a place close to where I worked my second job. I picked there for a couple of reasons. One, if things got real bad for me at the nightclub, I could show up at work and they’d put me right to work. And if I got too drunk to drive, the nightclub was in the lounge of a hotel so I could stay the night there and be right ready to go to work the next morning (I even put my. Well, I don't look like I'm 12, I thought.I went back down stairs, grabbed my purse, my book bag and went out thedoor behind my mother.As my mother was driving me to school I kept thinking about the hormoneblockers that my sister told me about the night before."Mother," I said, "I keep thinking about what Kim told me last night,about the hormone blockers." What about them?" she asked."Was I really on them?" I asked."Yes you were," she said.I could see she had a slight smile as she looked at me.