Her hair whipped around her as if it had a mind of its own. Instead of panicking over her ‘ruined’ hair, Rachel leaned back and closed her eyes, l...tting the sun warm her skin as she drifted into the past. . . ****** ‘Alright guys, focus. This is our last competition, we’ve got to make it count. For the seniors, and for me, okay?’ Rachel looked into the face of each teenager surrounding her: Jeff, Stephanie, Leah, Matt, and Gabriel. Gabriel was only a sophomore then, but he was practically. ‘Oh, they’re not filthy thoughts. Just us having oral sex and her riding on top of me mostly. That’s the one that gets me the most. Her on top of me.’ Danny was speaking so matter of fact like. He could have been telling me what was on TV that night. ‘That’s enough of this, Danny. It can’t happen and that’s that. Your father is the only man I’ve loved and the only man I’ve ever had sex with. And that’s how it is and how it will be in the future.’ ‘All I’m asking is that you think about it. All. " What?" I said again. I couldn't believe it; it was like doing it in a car and just as you're about to get off the cops shine a light in at you. It was like awakening from a dream."OK," I said, but it was like someone else talking. I raised myself up to a sitting position and then looked at him again to be sure. Yes, I was supposed to stand up. I swung my legs off the table and with a bit of a stumble that almost made him reach out, I stood up."Just stand here and face me..." I did, still bare. There were beautiful, intelligent beings with the shape of a bowl of pudding that had been dropped on the floor. There were frozen lakes of methane that were intelligent, and could send portions of themselves to the stars as a method of procreating. There were insect-like creatures, avian creatures, and reptiles, and more that she didn't have words to describe. They were all intelligent, and self-aware, and many had an added quality that she couldn't identify.Then, there were the fantasy.