"Is it really you?"Bert smiled; his body was that of an attractive co-ed, and she resembled Bert not at all. "Yes, I'm still in here."Brandon frowned;...he and Arnold had sat in the car for most of the day. "So what took so long?" he demanded as Bert slid her attractive body into the back seat.Bert shrugged. "You don't expect me to go into a water park and not check out the rides, do you?"Brandon shook his head in disbelief, then started the car and put it into gear. As they pulled onto the main. Mistakes were sure to happen, even more than usual, of course.At least we didn’t get sent to Charlotte first, thanks largely to the fact that the city fell first. The New Black Panthers accepted a truce that allowed them to withdraw from the town with any of their adherents and migrate outside of the Republican Front’s territory. Evidently, they were less attached to and enamored with any one city as they were with their revolutionary worldview and dreams of building a socialist black utopia. "I shrugged. "Okay then." There's just one more thing."I sighed. There always was. "Which is?" I don't want her to know I stayed here. I don't think she'd get jealous, but like I said -" Yeah, yeah, you haven't been dating that long." I zipped up my overnight bag. "I won't be here tomorrow night anyway, so I don't see a problem. I'll give you the extra key now, and you can just lock up when you leave."He grinned and hugged me. "Thanks, Trudy." No problem. Oh, while you're here, got any. . Oh God ... he knows.' She looked as guilty as she was.'Millions, ' thought the secretary.'Thought so, ' thought Grannie.Almost as one, they looked at me, a bead of sweat dripped off my nose. There was a full two seconds as they ... reconsidered... 'That's just weird David'. (A misplaced comma in that statement changes everything ... and don't be putting one in ... not even in your mind ... it doesn't read 'That's just weird, David.' No ... no ... no. No comma.)Everybody started laughing.