Sometimes it would get so bad, I’d get incredibly wet. I needed to be relieved, some how… Oh yeah, I know you’ll say go get some guy, but being ... geek, they’re still hard for me to come by. I tried to get a vibrator, but it went dead, I tried a second that too went dead…. I asked about them and found, they all go dead after awhile. I guess they’re made to. So, instead of buying another one… Embarrassingly, I found I needed something that was strong enough and fast enough to get me off, that. ‘Are you sure it’s safe?’ I asked him. ‘Yeah, I come here all the time,’ he said. I sighed and climbed over the broken cement blocks. Nate reached down a hand and helped me onto the roof. We sat down. I looked up at the sky and gasped. The stars were brighter and more numerous than I’d ever seen in Florida. I had a sudden yearning to come back out here alone and bring my father’s telescope. ‘How did you find this place?’ I asked him. He pointed to our left. ‘My grandmother is buried way over. ”Just then her cell rang and she looked at me, rolled her eyes and said, “It’s Jess. Should I take it?”“Go ahead, she might just be worried about you.”It was loud at the bar so she answered and moved away so she could hear better. After hanging up she came back, sat down and sipped her beer. I said, “Is everything OK?”“Everything’s fine, she just wanted to know if I was OK and when we’d be coming back but I wouldn’t put it past her to do something stupid.”“Oh well,” I said, “you can’t change. Had it not been for the raindrops reflecting and diffracting what little light there was, he doubted that he would have seen it at all."Well, any port in a storm," he muttered to himself as he peered upward into the rain, trying to determine where and what the source might be. Thinking it might be a farmhouse, he walked back along the road looking for a driveway. When, after a half-mile or so, he found no break in the fence that ran along the top of the embankment, he did an about face. Maybe.
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