Fear focused and sped up my thoughts along with my heart rate.The only other people that were supposed to be in the house were my parents, most likely...sleeping down the hall from me. There was no reason for them to be in my room, in the dark, at this time of night.Did someone break in? If it was a thief, the safest thing was to probably fake being asleep until he at least left the room. But what if he was something else? An escaped convict, a psychopathic murderer...That is the problem with. It looks like the world survived without me.”“Yes, sir, we struggled through. When do you plan to shave, sir?”“I shaved this morning, Will,” I answered, smiling. I figured I could drag out his discomfort.“Uh, yes, sir, I mean, uh, all of your face.”“Did Frank call you and tell you about this?” I quizzed.“There might have been some hair-related conversations. Are you going for a new look or something?”“Why not? Think America will survive the shock? Worried I’ll lose the next election?”“Well,. “Does the power go out here often?” I asked instead.“Oh my god, lately it’s been happening all the time!” Tami answered.Claire added, “Too many people running their air conditioners at once, we think. But we’ve only got one building manager who can fix stuff and he’s only here in the morning.”Tami caught me checking her out, and shot me a naughty smile. “Good thing we have this pool to keep cool in the heat. I bet we’ll be bumping into you down here a lot this summer.”She emphasized “bumping. We met up with the couple and they drove us to the lovely big house of their friends. We were made very welcome and introduced to lots of people. It did seem a bit odd that most of the guests were male. I mentioned this and was told that it was because they were mostly business associates. We got separated and after a while I went in search of my wife. I went from room to room, I eventually found her in the kitchen. I stood at the kitchen door and saw her surrounded by six guys who were all.