text: You step aside and walk around him. Henry's a little surprised.
  
  "Hey faggot, I'm talking to you bitch!" he shouts as you continue to ignore him. Henry hits you in the back of the head with a thrown pencil which you continue to ignore. Sensing his actions aren't getting the desired effect, he stops harassing you.
  "Fuck this creepy faggot." Henry mutters to himself and goes in search of different prey.
  
  You attend the last of your classes and then leave the school. You run into your sister outside. She walks up to talk to you.
  
  "Hey, I'm gonna stay with Butch tonight, and I think I might just stay over there permanently, his parents all cool enough to let me stay there. I'll be moving all my stuff out a little bit at a time, but I'll try to be quick, so you can tell that controlling bitch that she won't have to deal with me anymore."
  
  Wow, your sister wasn't joking about moving out.
  > You tell her that Butch has been cheating on her again
  You suddenly realize that with your sister gone, you'll be the only one there to face Mom. Even you sense that isn't a good thing. Maybe underneath all your automaton type behavior you do have a certain sense of self-preservation. If anything you're concerned about the changes that your sister leaving might bring, and even though you might not show it, you fear change.
  
  You tell your sister about Butch, she gets upset, but isn't really surprised. She'll probably break up with him, only to get back with him later. But for now its enough to convince her not to go move in with him. The status quo is kept in check.
  
  Home life continues as normal, your Mom yells at your sister and she yells back. There's something that is reassuring about that familiarity.
  
  Another day arrives and you feel comfortably numb...