At best Iwould complete tenth grade two years from now.But in two years I would be 18 years old. And I knew Iwasn't going to keep going to school afte...r I was 18. Sothere was no way I would finish high school. But when Itried this argument with my parents; they wouldn't listento me.Instead of arguing with me, my mom asked me to play with mylittle sister Cathy. I normally would have refused, buteven I had noticed how depressed Cathy had recently become.She was just 6 years old and her best friend. After Icame out of the bathroom Lenny explained that they had swiped the clothingfrom a girl at the laundry mat, and that they didn't know her name, theyhad settled on calling her Candi, because of the bright sequined letteringon the yellow baby-doll.At one point Doug even recommended that I go 'explore' Candi's body as anopportunity that a man would never have. But I couldn't do it, it justfelt wrong, and judging by Lenny's reaction he agreed with me.But I got the feeling that over the week. You got up, walked to me and asked me to dance.I was surprised at the beginning, a pretty girl asking me to dance with her. I didn't say no of course, I just went back to my friends and asked them not to wait for me. We danced and talked all night and you just forgot about your friends and spent the rest of the night with me. At the almost the end of the evening I was starting to fall for you and from the way you were staring and laughing at me I knew you felt the same way.At the end I asked. You're very dear to us, you're the only ones we've found in all of our travels who are like us." We are not like you," the alien contradicted. "We think together, you are singles, it is very different." It's different in that way. And yes, it's a big difference, I don't deny that. But only with you have we found any other than ourselves who can think at all! It's in that way that we're alike, you and we. And we believe that's important, much more important than the difference in the way that we.