School has been tough on Dustin, since word got out about his family's living situation. Other kids also tease him because he doesn't wear baggy pants like they do. A few weeks ago, Dustin came home with a huge bruise on his arm because a school bus bully had pushed him down between the seats. Other kids in his class try to beat him up at school, but he said he handles them with a shove or a sneaky punch in the stomach when they start pushing him around. The motel can also be an unsavory place.
People rent out rooms as places to party on weekends, and the noise echoes through the building.
There was a whole construction crew that rented the bottom of this place at one time. Construction guys are flirty-type guys. They travel from state to state, and they go out, and they drink, and they party all night, and it's just not a safe place for the kids to be. She worries, particularly, about her daughter. There was this one guy that kept carrying on about how beautiful she was, and da da da, and he kept it up and kept it up for the longest time.