"But I feel fine," Charlotte protested even as she stretched out and pulled her blouse out of her pants enough to expose her flat belly. "Nighty-night..." Arlene said with a grin as she put Little One on Charlotte's stomach. A glow began under the alien and a blue beam reached out for the young woman's forehead. A smile touched her face and her breathing deepened in sleep.A Hummer worked its way up the driveway to stop near the back door. Kayla and one of the troopers got out. After sitting her. "No," Autumn replied, "I just sat down three minutes before you got here." That's a relief. Wouldn't want to make a pretty lady wait." Wow that is corny," Autumn laughed giving Don a wink of approval."Sometimes corny works." It often does, I will admit. Nothing like a guy who holds the car door open for a woman. I laugh each time, because it is so chauvinistic." How so?" Don questioned."Well there are certain things in life that a man has adopted as things to do for the woman. They get this. " Thank you," Adam said. The sense of relief that washed over him almost caused him to drop to his knees. He felt tears come to his eyes. "I was really worried that I had harmed someone I care about."Celeste put her hand on his arm. She had no bedside manner and she knew it. That was why she chose research instead of practice. But it made her feel special to deliver good news to this guy."I saw you talking to the Scott woman," she said with a small smile. "You're not going to start your own. Their school was built on the ideals that boys need punishment. The teachers noticed how boys that got racked good in the courtyard would do better in their studies and be more polite to their female counterparts. It was said that a boy’s balls finally start working with a hard kick in the balls, only then will they grow up to become men. At first it started as a joke, until the all-female teachers and principal started enforcing it. It became a rule that girls had the right to exploit and hurt.