" He stopped the car, threw me in a ditch and left me." "Well, my name is Cody. I am a retired US government employee who lost his buns gambling. I am...not a pervert or not until you get to know me. I heading back to my home in Mesa. I would be glad to drop you where you want to go" I gave a smile and opened the car door for her. "I am DeDe. I don't have many options and for some reason, I trust you. Guess what, Mesa is my destination." On the way to Mesa, we swapped stories of our evening. DeDe. The only problem I had was with battery life. The increased capabilities drained them pretty quickly. Then I came up with an idea about how to eliminate the battery altogether. Building on the eco-drive concept, Citizen watches use, I was able to construct a device that ran on light. It made no difference, sunlight or artificial light my device functioned flawlessly. Dad made sure that I got a lawyer and he patented it for me and then went about marketing it to the leading computer. I threw a magazine, a bottle of water and sun tan lotion in a small backpack, grabbed a bike from the garage and started my little journey to the sea. So much had happened in the last month. I had broken promises and needed to figure out what it all meant. Sophie, a co-worker who took a liking in me mostly because I gave her more credit than others in the office, had been insisting on having a drink with me. She was smart and unapologetic about her dislike of others at work which made her. Her audience gasped in shock as a horrendous scar gash began to appear at her hairline above her right eye, and then continued down over her eyelid, across her nose, and finally ended at her jawbone below her left ear. Her once beautiful face was now a disfigured and terrifying sight for her audience to behold. Many of them looked away, unable to fathom the damaged beauty before their eyes.She began walking around the room, allowing any member of the audience who chose to do so the opportunity.