  I suppose I won't be doing any more skipping. I'm 16 now, my birthday was on Saturday, and now my old attendance contract is cancelled and a new one stands because of me missing Thursday and Friday: if I miss one day, any period except for third . . . (I wouldn't get marked absent), I will automatically be withdrawn from school. Automatically, no more Parker - and even if the parental units decided to re-enroll me I would have to do some serious convincing as to why the principal should let me back in . . . and then it would just get old again, and I'd start skipping. The one thing that concerns me is that I think my parents would kick me out.
I couldn't live with Gaga, and they would find some place to send me so I wouldn't be at home. I couldn't just go live with a friend, or with Joe and be the nanny for their baby and get my GED and go to college .
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they'd put me in a YCC-type place and I don't want that. I mean, I'm just really scared of living anywhere but home. Terrifed. 
