By the time Tommy pushes her bike back to her rented apartment, Ashley is gone, leaving Melonie sitting on the couch in the living room drinking tequila.

Noticing that Tommy had been staring at her, Melonie took her eyes off the TV and met Tommy's eyes: "What's the problem?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that alcohol will make the redness on your face that was covered by makeup look noticeable again." Tommy sat down at the other end of the couch, pointed to his face and said, "So, I'm a minor, can I have a drink now?" For the sake of these wines, which were bought with the money I earned. ”

Then he took out the cigarette and handed it to Melanie, Melonie took the cigarette and held it to her lips, Tommy lit the lighter and handed it over to help Meloni light it.

Melonie took a puff of her cigarette and then looked back at the TV, "Just a glass." ”

"Thank you." Tommy poured himself a glass of wine and took a sip: "Is the work okay?" ”

Meloni stared at the popular CBS sitcom "Family Tie" playing on the TV, and replied coldly: "It's so good that I'm determined to change jobs." ”

Melonie is a typical Italian appearance, with long black hair, delicate facial features, and a relatively petite figure compared to women of German or Irish origin, who is expressionless at the moment holding a wine glass and drinking tequila.

The beauty is cold, and the wine is cold.

"Why did your ex-boyfriend get into trouble with you?" Tommy observed his aunt's face and cautiously continued to ask.

Melonie turned her head to look at Tommy, "That's none of your business. ”

Then he drank the remnants of the wine in his glass and walked towards the bedroom.

"Good night, Meloni." Tommy said, looking at the other person's back.

"Bang!" The bedroom door was slammed by Melonie from the inside, like a response to Tommy Hawke.

Tommy Hawk sat alone in the living room, looking at the messy coffee table, and suddenly smiled bitterly.

It turned out that several adult magazines were brought back to the house by the bastard of the predecessor, no wonder the father who talked about the family all the year round, when he wanted to move out, he did not dissuade him at all.

At that moment, Colin Hawke's thoughts should have been what he had told himself tonight, regretting that he had the son who had caused Becia to be taken away for foster care.

It's just that Tommy doesn't remember this at all, or he doesn't know if those magazines belong to him, because occasionally when he and Tony's classmates come to visit, he will bring this kind of women's magazine to circulate, but now that he knows the answer, it is like Colin Hawk said, it is he who owes the family, because of him, it caused Becia to go to the foster family.

He has an unshirkable responsibility, so he needs to find a way to make up for his mistakes and bring Bessia back.

Of course, another reason is that if he is still preparing to enter a good university, it is best to deal with family relationships, otherwise when the university calls to investigate his situation, whether it is his father or Tony, he can easily ruin his education path with this matter.

Regaining custody of Bethea is very simple and difficult, the simple is that you only need to take out the money and meet all the tricky conditions put forward by the judge, so that Bethea can go home as soon as possible, and the difficult thing is that to meet those conditions, for Colin Hawke, a blue-collar worker who is unemployed in a large company and turns to odd jobs, is tantamount to a fantasy.

Thinking of this, Tommy got up and went back to the bedroom to take out the pen and paper, and then began to list the conditions for bringing his sister home again on the coffee table.

First, Béthea needs to have a separate bedroom of no less than 15 square meters in her original family with a children's exclusive wardrobe and desk.

Tommy ticked it, but hesitated and added the suffix of two hundred dollars.

Her home is a detached house, with three bedrooms, which belong to her father, herself and Tony, before Becia has been living in the attic arranged by her father for her, although it is less than fifteen square meters, it is a bit cramped, but it is very warmly decorated, many families in Warwick City will decorate the attic very cute, and then let the child live in it alone, but obviously in the judge and the Child Protection Bureau, Becia can not live in the attic.

If you want to get Bessia back, you need to give up her or Tony's bedroom to Basia, and Tommy has no problem with that, but it will cost him or Tony's money to redecorate his or Tony's bedroom.

Article 2: The monthly household income shall not be less than $850.

The monthly salary of his father's temporary worker in the shipbreaking yard, because the working hours are different, so the salary fluctuates between six hundred and seven hundred US dollars, plus Tony's income, it should be enough to achieve, but Tony's salary cannot be reflected in the tax return, he is an apprentice, and the remuneration is settled in cash, so if you want to meet this standard, you must either wait for Tony to become a regular apprentice, or you need a stable monthly income of no less than two hundred US dollars, which is reflected in the family income tax return.

Tommy added a $200 per month suffix to the second one.

Third, the family guarantees that she will provide at least $70 per month for Bessia's growth and education expenses for a period of two years.

Tommy was not too worried about this, seeing that his father was doing a good job of seducing a lawyer in front of the other husband's husband in order to deduct the consulting fee, he could be sure that his father would pay far more than seventy dollars for Becia.

Hooks.

Fourth, the family guarantees to take out all kinds of commercial insurance for children designated by the Child Protection Agency for Becia.

Tommy wrote a $1,300 suffix after the fourth.

Yes, if Becia wants to return to her family of origin, then her family of origin needs to purchase various children's combination insurance plans for Becia that cost up to $1,300 a year for at least two years.

The official explanation is that the Child Protection Agency needs to ensure that the two-year observation period for the child to return to the family of origin is to avoid any problems as much as possible, and that the risk can be minimized by having adequate insurance.

Another answer is that the insurance companies are all financial parties of various political parties, or simply the pre-political business of some parliamentarians, who earn money under the name designated by the Child Protection Agency.

That's why it's easy for Becia to be sent to a foster home by the Children's Bureau, but it's hard to get her back.

"It's simply not a problem that a high school student can solve." Tommy Hawke looked at the paper and exhaled in frustration.

Relying only on Dad and Tony, there is no chance to bring Bessia home, plus he is a high school student, not to mention the steady and continuous monthly income of $200, but the insurance cost of up to $1,300 a year is already a mountain between Bessia and them.

On TV, CBS's hit episodes have finished playing, and Providence TV switches back to its nightly news program, with the host facing the camera and saying:

"The government is optimistic that the new tobacco tax will increase New York City's tax revenue by $63 million and help citizens kick the bad habit of smoking, but New York City smokers clearly don't think so, as shown in the interview......

Tommy Hawk lit a cigarette and listened to the New York smokers on the television cursing the city government's decision to raise tobacco taxes, when suddenly, a white young man sprang out from the side and shouted into the camera:

"Ed Kowt (then mayor of New York) must not have personally bought even a pack of cigarettes! This bastard costs New Yorkers an extra $300 a year on cigarettes! I'll take a risk for $300! He's forcing us poor people to sin just to buy cigarettes! ”

"Turn off the TV and go to bed! Otherwise, I don't know if that guy would have risked his life for $300, but I promise I'll drive you out into the street because you're so noisy that you can't sleep. The bedroom door opened, and Meloni, who had changed into a set of rose-red pajamas, said angrily to Tommy Hawke, who was watching the news with a cigarette in her mouth.

Tommy Hawk turned off the TV, twisted the cigarette butt, put away the piece of paper he had written, and bowed to Melonie as if she were a student facing a teacher. "Okay, my dear landlord, teacher, and aunt, Miss Meloni, good night, oh~ can you congratulate me a little?"

After speaking, he smiled and walked towards his small bedroom.

"Congratulations? Congratulations on what? Melonie asked, staring at Tommy Hawk's back.

"Congratulations on stepping into the fucking adult world starting tonight." Tommy Hawke turned around and smiled at Meloni, then walked into the bedroom and closed the door.