Ruth and I gave him a minute to get settled and then we went in together. Tony and Bill were already there. They had a table. As soon as they saw us t...ey stood up and waved for us to come over and join them." Mel chuckled. "They weren't going to give any other guys a chance to steal you away from them." No, they weren't." "So what happened?" Amy was just as eager to hear the details as Mel. "The guys got us drinks and we chatted. Ruth was sitting next to Tony. I was sitting next to Bill. Bill. ” “Roger!” I said in disbelief. “I came to the party with Roger.” As I thought about it, this made sense. I had noticed Chrissy and Roger flirting and hanging out together at school. But Roger was a player who had been with several girls in the last couple of years and didn’t think Chrissy would go for that. “Well, I came to the party with Suzie. Plus,” Chrissy continued, “you should know two things. One, although Suzie and Roger broke up last March, they have been fucking on-and-off ever. Jade Force was well aware of the problems. Rather than allow the anger to be directed at them, they deflected it by putting people to work. These refugees weren’t the kind of people who would be satisfied with leveling an airfield or putting in a small farm. They needed a different kind of work of an appropriate degree of challenge.There were committees for just about everything. If it was of concern to the refugees, there was a committee to study it. If it involved purchasing something,. “Me too! We went to the clinic together!” Shelly added. “And that was in January!”I grinned. I sure was not minding being set up like this!The other girls got up and followed my sister down the hall, and I followed them. They walked into Stephanie’s room and Stephanie turned down the bed. She put a soft towel on the bed like she had for her first time, though I doubted this was going to be kept. I was sure that was only to prevent sheets from getting stained.“What should I do?” Trish.