The Interesting Adventures Of Doc.

  In my wayward youth, I lived at two different children’s homes. The first home I live at kicked me out. I spent two months in detention until my caseworker found a new place for me. He took me there for an overnight visit. The place was cool to me, so the next week I became a resident. The next day at lunch in the dining room, a girl handed me a note and told me who it was from a girl named Dru. Once I got back to the boy’s cottage, I read the note, and it said that she likes what she sees and wants me to get with her. I was not having it. I wanted nothing to do with her. Nothing was wrong with her and I was not stuck up. She was without a doubt the best looking girl there. She was also a bit enigmatic. Somehow, I have always been lucky that way. Even in adulthood, I attracted the ones who were a bit off and not in the mainstream. I have never minded. I had no intention of getting involved with Dru. I hung out with Mary, who was from the same city as me, so it was c...

  The kids at Wernle were playing softball in back of the main building. This was a normal event during the summer. The staff did their best to keep the boys and girls apart, but Doc was always looking for cracks in their armor. He spent long periods of time locked up in the quiet room because of his activities. He sometimes got caught but most times he did not. He knew the best time to talk to one of the girls was right after the softball game because the kids headed back to the main building and boys cottage like a crazy mob of wild lunatics, and the staff could not keep track of everyone. Dru had made it known that Doc belonged to her, and she had overcome all his defenses. It was the first time this had happened to him, and their was nothing he could do about it. On this summer’s day, while playing softball he was plotting a way to talk to Dru alone. Halfway through the game he walked up to Dru and whispered to her to meet him under the kitchen porch after the gam...