Still feeling woozy from all that just happened, Asiara let her eyes slip closed as she tried to recover. The cold was affecting her now, and she coul... feel herself shivering. She was also now aware that, other than her head, which was resting in the woman's lap, her body was lying on wet, sandy soil. Fighting to open her eyes, she was able to make out her surroundings a bit. She was lying at the bottom of the lake, only now, the lake was empty of water. Asiara and her mysterious caretaker were. But other kids noticed.I didn't have a reputation as a sissy outside of my bedroom, so I didn'ttake it seriously when some of the boys from school would kid me about myhair and call me a fag. They laughed when they said it and I could tellthey didn't really mean it.Girls noticed my longer hair too, especially the "bad girls". Theyweren't really bad as in evil. We just called them bad girls becausethey dressed in black tee shirts, smoked cigarettes and had potty mouths.Mothers like mine. Shark would be next, then Wrong Place and last Thunder as the fastest ship would be the farthest to the south. I wanted us to spread out as far as we could get but still be in sight of each other.Whoever saw the pirates first should signal by lowering their blue ensign and raising one black flag for each pirate seen. The other ships would be watching for that signal and would converge on the one signaling.When we found the pirates and closed on them, I wanted the captains to count how many. But he glanced down at Superman's firm belly, wide hips and rounded, tan legs and felt a lump in his throat that was all too familiar."Is there anything I can do to help, Superman?"Superman felt a surge of warmth for Superboy. "Oh, that's so sweet. And you know what? There is something you can do for me, but I'm not sure you'll want to. It's kinda, oh, silly." What?" Listen to me? I could really use someone to talk to right now."They flew off to an isolated park in the mountains of Peru..