If you attempt to purchase condoms, you went to school with the checker, are related to the checker, or they are friends of your parents-one of the 4,724 reasons I want to leave Athens.
My thoughts consuming all of my attention, I don't remember the drive home. I really need to be more careful. As I pull myself from my car, I barely notice my mother's car is not in the driveway. Instead of cursing her as I begin to worry, I trudge up the sidewalk, in the unlocked front door, and down to my room. Huffing, I dramatically throw myself onto my bed. I stare at my ceiling for a couple of minutes.
I can't be here. It feels like the walls close in and the ceiling drops to crush me. I snag a bottle of water from the refrigerator, a quilt from the back of the sofa, and escape the house with all
