.’ He lifted his hand as the other three were shaking their heads, almost in disbelief. ‘No, guys, hear me out. If, just supposing if, we went alo...g with this, what do we do about initiation? How can she give sperm?’ Jack said, ‘Obviously she can’t, but she can drink ours!’ Jim offered, ‘Well, she can pee, can’t she? Didn’t she make Jeff drink hers?’ ‘So how did it taste, Jeff?’ Tim asked. ‘It wasn’t that bad,’ Jeff said, shooting a glance at Latesha, ‘a little like beer, but still not my drink. Buncha NOT lawyers and movers and shakers in local politics. I’m thinking your mom’s not gonna want to hang around.”“Yeah, I know,” she said almost sadly. “Mom’s good for ‘Mom and me’, but I don’t think ... even if she brought Harv.”“No drinking, either,” I said. “Maybe beer, but not for anybody that’s flying.”Deena’s REALLY regretting having to go away for the weekend. I feel bad, because I’m selfish – I get Bill all to myself for a couple of nights, and my OTHER mate is SAD.“Sometimes it just. Even though I liked the guys teasing and flirting with me, still it was jazz that I cared about more than anything. Forget about school. It didn’t exist, though they tried to get me to come. School was unreal. It was crowded and I didn’t care about what happened in 1812 or want to read the lame books like, “Silas Marner” and… well, I forgot what other books they assigned that didn’t have anything to do with my life. I had no friends. The girls cared too much about clothes, boys and getting. ” The meteorologist’s voice bellowed from the 32 inch flat TV screen. That was the last thing Sarah Sheldon heard before the lights flickered, once…twice, and then everything went dark. Her body stiffened, paralyzed by her fear of storms.“Shit!” she shrieked. “Daddy…? The power’s out!” Of course he would have already figured that one out for himself, but Sarah had been afraid of storms for as long as she could remember and the idea of sitting alone, staring at nothing but darkness, made her.