Then, I graduated and moved out to experience what living away from home and family was like. It took some time to adjust myself, but eventually, I se...ttled in and revolved my life around the semester of the University and the friendly debates I had over tea and biscuits, as the Sun left fiery traces of its existence in the dusk sky.And on one such evening, I met her. People have a habit of romanticizing such moments to an exaggeration, probably because the kind of mutual intellectual attraction. He stopped at the Auto to check on Basil and Petal. The flickers were fast asleep, so he left them alone.He retrieved the box Bette had made for him out of the old tin cans. He checked the shields on the Auto and returned to the pavement. He soon found the store the salesman had mentioned. He entered the shop called George’s Jewellery Emporium and looked around.From the signs, he determined the business dealt with jewellery, gems and metals and was basically a pawn shop. He fronted the counter. ” His grin got wider.Megan blushed. She knew what he was talking about. The employees wore uniforms at Bob’s Car Wash. They were based on a Pirate theme, with tight blue shorts below a thin shirt with broad horizontal red and white stripes on it. It highlighted every muscle, rib, fold of fat and anything else on your body and, when wet, was fairly transparent ... at least on the white parts. The guys’ shirt was a normal T shirt, but they had to wear a stylized pirate head bandana that looked. Not more than two weeks ago, the dark brown, dead leaves that were now strewn about the frosty ground had been a rainbow of colors against a blue sky.Now dark gray clouds hung over the chilly air and a cold wind blew from the north like an omen of the approaching hour. Jim Baker was born with Spinal Bifida, a crippling disease that had robbed him of ever knowing what it was like to take a simple step. All Jim had known his entire life were challenges, some big, some small, but none as difficult.