"I'm sorry, Tavi," Candice said after she led me back to the chair and sat down. "Celia came to me; she was in love with you, the stupid high school s...uff that we all go through. She wanted to know if she could ... I didn't think there might be more to your powers than what I found in the testing." It's not your fault, Candice." You were an utter asshole to her, Tavi," she said, bringing tears back to my eyes. "You're too powerful to be that selfishly cruel. You could have and you should have. Andrea giggled when she blasted me across the forehead. I staggered back into Renee’s tits. She laughed in my ear. I was spun, by the waistband of my pants, and kissed as hard as I could be. I almost said something in the vein of “Wow, you’re energetic today...” But I didn’t even get the exclamation out. Renee whisked me towards the hose yelling, “Andrea’s turn.”“I don’t really feel like kissing you for waking up.” She told me. She didn’t meet my eyes for an entire heartbeat before she bent her. I couldn't smell anything. I waited, not daring to make a sound or a move.Then, I heard it. The slightest squeak of a door moving. There was only one place it could be and that was in the back. And, there was only one way out of the back and that was directly in front of me. I remained in the prone shooting position, forcing myself to stay calm and be ready for whatever came next.It came in a blur. The intruder dove to the carpeted entrance, rolling once and coming up in a kneeling shooting. 'Will it start before I run out of hill? I didn't know or particularly cared.'Chukka chukka chukka... POP... POP... chukka chukka... BANG... 'The chicken wire baffle sounded a tinny rattle from the otherwise straight-through exhaust.I don't know why we put those things in the pipes in those days. I think it may have been the law banning loud exhausts. It never made any difference to the volume, as I recall.I reached the bottom of the hill and still the damned thing hadn't sprung to life. Not.