I also took out a cigarette out of the pack and started to smoke it but he didn’t look bothered. Then after a long five mins or so he said ‘Bardhi...i, I know you have grown up and this age of yours is a very sensitive age and there is a long life ahead of you. If we indulge our selves in this kind of a thing now, then I am sure you will, in later stage of your life think that I exploited you and that will worsen our relationship and I don’t want that happen, I don’t want to do anything that may. But once it became clear to Julie just what the score was, she was gone so fast it almost defied belief. Years after she’d left him, they’d find each other in some of the damndest places, running into each other literally. That led to some awkward conversations, and before either one of them knew it, they were bopping like bunnies at best. At worst, their antagonism was a lot closer to the surface, and there had been times when one of them had slammed the other against a wall for what amounted. “Sure,” I said. “But we better hurry, I don't know how long this paused time will last.”“How long did it last for you?” Aurora asked as we move towards Cassandra and José, slipping past President Brooks's immobile form.“Couple hours,” I said. “But I could have restarted time at any point. In fact, I did restart it. For all I know, it would have stayed frozen forever unless I thought about it.”“Ah, gotcha, Master,” Aurora said. Her brow furrowed. “But we can move them, right?”“With some. "What the hell?"Jay, taking the beer bottle from his mouth, looked at her between his bare feet, elevated on the lazy boy. "What?" He said, the portrait of a dumb jock in repose."I just got done mowing the fucking lawn again! And you're in here, sitting on your widening ass, watching more porn!" Her face was growing as red as her shoulders. I was gaping, not at her outburst but at her heaving chest. She continued her rant, "Mom and Dad aren't coming back for another month and a half and I'm not.