Newman, you are definitely not like other teachers,” she started playfully biting the tip of her pan.“I am the best!” he proudly announced appro...ching his desk. “You can start by reading short stories.”He took a book from his desk and brought it with him.“Choose a story and read it aloud for me,” he gave her the book which was a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway.“Well, I’ll try.”Katy was never so enthusiastic about studying. As it turned out, Mr. Newman was the only one who. ” I nodded as I again felt the welcoming darkness swallow me.Was it days or weeks? I wasn’t sure when I felt myself awaken again. This time I knew where I was laying, then I started to sift through the few memories I had after the council member’s guard had hit me. I had to make sure that didn’t happen again. To my horror I knew that had I not moved to take that blast Naci would be dead. I had strengthened her quite a bit but not where I wanted her. True she could take on a hell of a lot more. She was good, very good. I closed my eyes and started to drift away, the pain now dulling slightly. My mind wandered back to an incident last week. Katie was sitting at the breakfast table reading a magazine. I was making her some toast. I leant over to look at a photo of a rock star in her magazine but found my eyes wandering down her pyjama top. I felt disgusted at myself but try as I might I couldn't help looking back at the cherry red nipple nestling against the silk material. I banished. " I think Doreen will be able to help," Bud said, not looking terribly worried, considering."Has this kind of thing happened before?" I asked.Bud shook his head. "Not that I can recall. We've had cases of the flu, but nothing like this."I pulled a water bottle out of our ever present cooler and sat in a chair, waiting for Doreen and Stan to return from the hospital. It would be a while, I realized, so I called the group together and suggested we work on some things that we would be using in the.