Chapter 17: Troy Remembers

Troy had no choice but to get away. But where does a seventeen-year old computer geek run away to? He would not go to his sister Lorie's house because Lorie had two small babies and a husband that looked at him as if he had a contagious disease. Bob, his brother, was always buddy buddy with him. They didn't have a tight relationship since he was twenty-two years older, but he did put forth an effort.

So that's where Troy headed. Bob was single and maybe he'd let him crash there and help him to get a job. Of course his brother would probably not allow him to blow off his entire senior year. So Troy was okay with the idea of completing his senior year at his brother's place. Bob was so much younger than Dad, maybe he could understand what he had tried so hard to tell his parents. The drugs were changing him; making him into an un-person.

They had started him on Ritalin when he was a kid. Then he had stopped running around the house and bounding up and down in class. His paren