I turned to open the door. I dumped a big load of candy in there hands. They all laughed and ran down my side walk. I shut my door. I turned off the l...ghts outside as I walked toward my study. I turned to look in. "Clank! Clank!" I dropped my big bowl of candy on the wooden floor in the hallway. I stood there frozen. I could here Ms. Lady Bug on the phone. She had wrapped the black phone cord around her bodacious body. I moved closer. She could not move. Some how she had wrapped the cord around. " I know." I nodded. "But it'll be over soon and really, once we get started you'll forget all about it."The girl looked at me doubtfully, but she didn't say anything more and we were quiet for a moment while I prepared the tools for Dr. Cockley, arranging everything carefully. As I reached above Liz, pulling the large bank of lights into place, she smiled at me."You're really pretty too," she said, responding to my earlier compliments in the hall."Why, thank you Liz." I smiled down at her."How. Take a quick trip back to the Cretaceous-period, because the academics need more information about Velociraptors. The last team they sent back had landed on the flank of an active volcano and only managed to bounce back seconds before their time sphere would have been enveloped by magma.Our mission was to observe and record a group of Velociraptors hunting. We need to prove that they were far more intelligent than the academics previously thought. Get us proof that they cooperated as they hunt. You beat me most of the time. That sucks. I used to beat you regularly.”“I practice and study. Like you used to. Well, before you decided that sex was more important than chess!”“What?”“Yeah, once you had sex, you mostly quit studying and you didn’t practice as much.”I hadn’t even thought of that. But I didn’t see giving up sex, or girls. Something else had to give.She read my mind and said, “Something has to give. Why don’t you quit the school newspaper? You don’t plan a journalism career and.