” Lucia batted her eyes playfully. “But the senior team did a great job of shepherding us through the process.”Kiyoko then came out of the bedro...m in a new outfit, and she and Husna and the three med-techs of junior Boost Team-5 gave cheerful goodbyes and headed off to a hill in another area of the Park.Fatimaexchanged a couple of glances and raised eyebrows with Mark and then they both changed into bathrobes and put their wet clothes into the device that would clean and dry them.. To Cal., there are plenty of passing vehicles, if only they'd stop!The local police like to hide behind the billboard for The Big Texan, an Amarillo (Tex.) steakhouse that is on the westbound itinerary and promises that if you can eat their 72 ounce steak in one hour or less, it's free!I can't tell you how many times I've dreamt of hitchhiking to get my belly full, then continuing west, just to get out of this boring hell!But our parents had an apparently cushy job, minimal working hours and. Stephanie later (after the experience) told me that Kandi was going togive up and was thinking of seeing one of her old ex-boyfriends the following weekend. That I have beenhaving sex with Steph to was a fair trade.Friday night came and the three of us went out to thebars. Kandi was being terrible, getting drunk andhitting on guys in front of me. She even was talkingdown to her childhood friend. Steph said, “That’s it, ifyou’re going to act like a bitch, you’re going to. Very strange if you ask me." Vic commented, to no one in particular.The three college sophomores were friends in the loosest definition. They had attended the same high school. They'd ended up going to the same college and they'd been assigned to the same dorm hall. They had exchanged pleasantries often over the first year but had barely spoken in the past six months.Vic adjusted his glasses and tried to call up his GPS locator. Maybe his tech savvy would be just the ticket to get the three of.