Being a night owl and also someone who finds himself always looking out the window whenever a pair of headlights ease into the apartment complex after midnight, I couldn't help but see a lot of the comings and goings with my neighbors. Not that I really cared either way what any of them were doing but with the occasional burglary in the neighborhood, a person tends to pay more attention to strangers coming around. I immediately started to notice a pattern with Rebecca Nye's late night routines as the weeks went on. Her rickety station wagon would come and go at all times of the night and many times with a wide array of men accompanying her in and out of her apartment. Knowing Belinda was home to experience her Mother's looseness first hand, all I could do was pray that somehow she'd stay immune to her lecherous upbringing. Many of the men I saw come and go from the Nye apartment frankly I wouldn't let walk my dog, and knowing those men were doing God knows what with Rebecca while her Daughter slept under the same roof made my skin crawl. Knowing first hand just how small the apartments were, I knew Belinda was forced to be party to everything socially her Mother did those nights when Rebecca chose to bring men home with her. Another example of Belinda rebelling against her Mother's influence was in the way she dealt with her boyfriends. While Rebecca went through men like pudding through a cat, Belinda appeared to have only two steady boyfriends from the time she was 11, and both those boys seemed to have their acts together much more than the skuzzy things Rebecca Nye brought home.