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I was staying in some sort of group home where most of the residents were teenagers younger than me. There was also an older woman (older than me, at least) who owned the house, and a guy who I thought was her boyfriend. The front hallway had three funny-looking payphones, and I went to get a closer look at them because it had been so long since I'd used one. One of the teen girls joined me. Two guys showed up at the door, explaining that they work for a new burger joint in the area and were giving out samples. The teen girl got a burger, but the only sample they gave me was some kind of small grilled cactus leaf. I felt I was getting gypped. But how do you argue with free samples? They also gave us some fliers, which become important later.

I went to the kitchen where some of the other kids were gathered. The teen girl followed a few minutes later, complaining that the burger guys had called her on the phone and made a whole bunch of nasty comments. I got mad. I went back to the hallway with the payphones to call the burger place using the number on their flier so I could complain. But I was having trouble figuring out the number on the flier. I put a quarter in the slot, then realized that the number on the flier was a toll-free 888 number, so I tried to get my quarter back from the phone. Then I looked a little closer and the flier actually says, "Don't call 1-888-555-5555 because it's a scam." Why would they put that on an advertising flier?

Just as I started to put two and two together, the older woman's boyfriend turned up and distracted me by flirting with me. It was a little confusing, but I was definitely enjoying it! He told me that he never really was going out with the homeowner, and I realize that he really was closer to my age than hers.

I went into the basement to find the older woman. She was busy cleaning and I wanted to ask her if the guy was her boyfriend, but I was too afraid to interrupt her. Eventually, she got irritated. She told me that if I didn't have anything to do, I could go out into the yard and clean out the storage shed. On my way out, I ran into the guy. I told him, "Guess I'm going to get all hot and sticky in the shed. Wanna join me?" We reached the shed and find that it's empty, so with nothing else to do, we started making out!

After a while, we headed back into the house with the intention of spending more time alone together. But there's two teen girls who just came home and I could see that they were upset. We sat down with them and they talked about how scared they are about the future. I told about how I tackled scary things in the past and how I still get scared sometimes before I woke up.