Yes and alone.

" Hi Laurie!! Nice outfit, I love the fashion you kids wear these days." He tells me looking up from the broken bike he is fixing.

"Hi Mr Wallace, it's more an accident than fashion I'm afraid, my mom locked us out of the house in a t-shirt and nightie. " I reply. He has a daughter my age living with her mom on the other side of the country, due to a restraining order he never gets to see her so he treats me like his kid in some ways. I had many wild rides on the back of his bike in my younger years.

"And she wants her gallows-bird neighbour to pick her lock, right?" He adds laughing. While he likes me and can be helpful my mom always treat him like the criminal he once was.

" That's it in a shell." I tell. " please she's dragging me around half naked I just want to go home."

"Your mom put special locks on your house to prevent the likes of me to get in, I'll need a special tool from a friend. We pick it up and you're in." He explains." But you can't ride a bike like this...."