She came back three minutes later, no women were in the bathroom. No, there weren’t any bathrooms on this floor. I tipped her a twenty to check the ...estaurant bathroom. No joy. The waitress kindly brought me a complimentary drink, like she thought I’d been dumped or something. ‘Something’ left too many options open, but in my gut I knew there was only one possibility. Rachel wouldn’t dump me, she wasn’t a practical joker, and this wasn’t the type of place kidnappers frequented. Rachel was in a. Conner’s summer school!” Vicky tattled on us. I thought it was a direct reaction to being embarrassed she didn’t know the bible as well as she let on.“The good news for you is that the class is full and we’ve already started our summer semester so even if you wanted to I wouldn’t accept you as a student,” my mom grinned and then glared at us. She knew we had been trying to talk her into being disciplined.“You don’t think I would need to be in a summer program like this? You said it yourself, I. After perhaps half a mile or so, the town was no longer visible and we had reached the edge of the CDC’s quarantine zone. There was no physical barrier to keep people out, just metal signs every twenty yards or so down the mountain saying ‘DANGER. KEEP OUT. CDC.’ with a contact phone number.“I’d better stop here,” said Jay. “If I go any further my pa will whup my ass. Keep following the track round and The Stacks is about half a mile on. I’ll wait here for you.”“Thanks,” I said, “but you don’t. She had the frame of a large and intimidating woman, broad-shouldered and with wide hips to match, taut muscles protruding from beneath her dark skin. No, what he had initially assumed to be jet black, shining skin was actually a layer of thin fur that clung to her figure. It was like volcanic glass, reflecting the candlelight to make her shine, clinging to her body such that it looked like she was wearing a velvet catsuit. The flickering light accentuated the mounds of her large breasts and.