"No, sir. He's been quite the help as our labor budget is getting all shot to hell. Mostly because of the restaurants that have been shut down our res...aurant reservations have taken a beating and thus I've been having to send people, who are willing, to go home," she tells me."I have an idea that might help things. What if we were to take on reservations for the trucking company as well? People or companies that need things moved would call an 800 number that would route the calls to the three. One of them said, "We are from the People. We have come to offer you joy and peace."I said, "That's interesting. What if we're not interested?" They looked shocked. I continued before they could say anything. "We have a nice community of a pretty good size. The people voted on their leaders and like the joy and peace they have." I decided not to go into details about Virginia and Luray or our allies in Atlanta and The Oaks.The same man said, "We want to help you. By joining the People, we can. Then he turned my chin toward him, and as I was about to say something, smothered my unspoken words with a kiss.and whispered in my ear, "This is going to be a great night." With that he led me to the door. I followed instinctively, with no will of my own..On the way he often put his hand lightly grazing the bareness of my thigh with his fingers...I don't remember what we talked about during dinner, but I remember his voice. It was soft and melodic. He was like a serpent who hypnotizes his prey. The professor and I both laughed at her."I'm sure you did fine Miss Merks," he assured her. "You probably did much better than you think." I think I failed miserably, so I hope I did better than that!" she said."You probably aced it just like last test Steph," I told her. "You probably got all the easy questions and just had problems with the last two pages right?" Yeah, those killed me," she admitted."Well, you got at least a seventy five then, the last two pages were only worth twenty five.