That night I again slept alone.In the morning at breakfast, which I was on time for unlike yesterday, the day's schedule came up again."What do you ha...e planned for today?" Dad asked, as he prepared to leave for work."I need to see Uncle Dan about a sharpening problem," I told him."Sharpening problem?" Dad asked."Yes, I need to know how to sharpen a particular kind of knife and since he sharpen all kinds of tools and knives, I thought he would know the right way to go about it," I said, hedging. A frown marred his features but he agreed to meet up with whoever was on the line. Turning back to me, his eyes raked my body but anger spread over his face. He was angry that he had to leave but not at myself. “I have to go…” I nodded, unable to speak. Showing him out the door, I closed it and leaned against it and sighed angrily. So close! I climbed into bed that night feeling very unsatisfied. A few nights later, I was in Books-A-Million when I felt a presence close by. Eyes that were on me. The voice responded, I am just thinking about what they were talking when they escorted you out here. Something about an experiment. Voice added.Black metallic ball was the size of a house. Lucian just could not stop gaping at its scale. The giant metallic black ball started to gyrate and the buzzing became louder with every passing second, Lucian waited.The ball suddenly stopped to gyrate. The buzzing stopped.What now? Lucian wondered.As if reading his mind the balls started shooting lasers in. And I'm going to have to believe that you were thinking about me when you put that top on."I laughed and said, "Yeah. I was. I won't bother to ask if you like it."Then I looked at him sideways and asked, "How many girls have you seen naked?"He blushed and asked, "Counting you?"I loved the way he blushed. It made him seem so, I don't know, un-jaded I guess. It was refreshing. I answered, "Yeah, counting me."He said, "One, counting you."I was astounded. Not so much because that meant that he was.