Closing the door as requested, Stacy asked, "Well, what is it?"From under her pillow, Stacy saw Olivia pull out a white plastic looking stick and hand...it over. Stacy read EPT on the stick and on it was a clear plastic window with a blue line showing. "What is it?" A pregnancy test," she whispered. "It's negative!" Thank God," Stacy replied. "Are you sure it isn't too soon to test?" I don't know, Carl mentioned something about that. He said he could get me another one if I wanted. I might wait a. ++++++ To say things changed immediately at my house is an understatement. My dad still hated me, and more than ever, I now hated him with a white-hot fury. It muted over time, of course, and we learned to tolerate one another, my mother the only thing we had in common. We danced around through my middle- and high-school years, and on the day after I received my diploma, I took all my meager possessions (I’d accumulated virtually none of the trappings of teen life, having fantasized of this. . good. Inside me, I mean."I smiled and clapped my hands. "Very well done!" I said. "You've demonstrated Newton's third law. Madison's action of smelling Lacy's foot caused an equal and opposite reaction of pleasure inside her body."The pair looked on with stupefied expressions. Then Madison's face melted as realization struck her. "I get it!" she smiled. Lacy, meanwhile, looked on with the same confused bewilderment as before."Lacy," I waxed, "I can see you're not following along. Perhaps. The language was unknown, but a simple search in the archaeologicaldatabase in the base computers allowed it to be translated. Thewriting was surprisingly simple and laconic. It read:"The portal opens every 23 sidereal days. It brings you to the mirrorworld which is more clement than here, but beware of the changes."Rogrs understood that the person who wrote that was a leader, perhapsa captain like himself, and that it was an instruction manual he (orshe) wrote before going through the portal,.