After turning it back on from standby the screens came back to life just as he'd left them. He had about half a dozen windows opened with an eclectic ...ix of subjects. A YouTube video of upcoming computer games, another with a music video, a movie review. By now he'd forgotten what two of them even were. Somewhere hidden in the middle of the windows was a site with some adult pictures.He'd touched himself a couple of times; but mostly he just liked scrolling through and clicking on the images. By most standards, her parents were poor. They certainly couldn’t afford to pay for Alice to go to college. Toby had only made average grades in school and worked on the family farm. Jarrod was still in high school.Her first semester had gone fairly well, she made average grades in all her classes, but nothing outstanding. Alice didn’t care much for her college roommate. Tara was somewhat on the wild side. She was dating several different boys and used recreational drugs. She didn’t even try to. It felt strange to her. Notexactly good, but like she shouldn't have done that. She prodded it afew more times, and when a tiny clear drop of fluid oozed out sheimmediately panicked.Julie dropped her underwear, running to her bookbag stark naked. Shebegan to dig through the crumpled papers she threw in there with theintention of throwing away, hoping this was one of the many times shehad forgotten to do so. Sure enough, the pamphlet was there. A pamphletdetailing the symptoms of the P virus,. What became more confusing was when you felt your stomach grow hot and when you pulled open your robes to see what was happening, you were surprised to see a white symbol magically tattooed to your stomach just beneath your belly button. It was a large circle with a dot in the center and ovular prongs around it that made it look like a stylized sun... and also like something you had seen in one of your old teacher's books about reproduction."The Journey Mark," she had proclaimed, "you are this.