"Sarah repeated before disappearing into the void. Laughing noises soon could be heard everywhere. Bill tried to cover his ears with his hands, but it...was too much for him. The loud noise soon caused him to pass out from pain. Senator William's Guest Bedroom"Make sure you keep a warm blanket on him. You over there keep that IV stabled. Keep a eye on that heartrate." A nurse instructed her crew. "What happened? Who are you? And where am I." Bill questioned.Bill tried to get up, but that was. The few jobs that there had been were snapped up by the guys who were mustered out first, so there was nothing left by the time I got home to Mulberry Run, New Hampshire. I wasn't married, so I didn't have a wife to worry about, and my ma and pa had their general store, so they were OK. I fooled around helping at the store for a while, but all of us could see that I was really just in the way.It was certain that I had to look elsewhere for a living. There was nothing close by that was honest. “Yes,” he replied.“Is there any wriggle room? Sexuality is a spectrum between completely heterosexual and completely gay. Do you think I’m completely gay, or could I be somewhere in-between?”“You mean bisexual?”I nodded.“You’re completely and utterly one hundred and twenty percent gay,” was his verdict.Whoever was doing this to me had done a comprehensive stitch-up job.When we got to school, we split up to go our separate ways. I headed to my locker to stash my running gear. There was a crowd. Lucy knew I wouldn't get her into trouble.She had an uncanny intuition about who she could trust, especially when it came to guys. Back at school, I was known as the quiet student. The shy kind who didn't say a peep. I was often overshadowed by the more outspoken guys and she knew I had an almost sub-zero social standing, which she actively sought whilst interviewing the applicants. She knew that there would be a real threat to her order if she'd invited some loud-mouthed, popular jock into her.