“Care for some chips?” Jack asked sliding the container across the table. He took another bite out of his sandwich.“Don’t mind if I do,” Mel...ssa said wondering why he had chips in a plastic cup rather than a small prepackaged bag.Looking at his thermos, Jack said, “I’d offer you some soup, but I’ve only got one cup. You wouldn’t happen to have a cup packed away in your paper bag?”“No,” Melissa said.Jack looked at the package containing potato chips. It was a little round plastic cup with a lid.. . woke us up. We were so late with Jade last night that we slept in. I forgot all about our meeting.”“Yes, I know. Don’t worry; I’m pulling your chain. I figured you’d just forgotten to tell me about a final exam or something. Until I got the pictures this afternoon. You’ve got to see this,” she said. “Can you hustle Kate around and have dinner with me tonight? You haven’t already eaten, have you?”“Dinner? What time is it?” I looked at the clock. Six? Wow!“Uh ... no ... we haven’t eaten yet.. ”“Are you okay?”“Yeah. Sure. Fine. You just took me by surprise. I’m good. Hug me again?”Oh, shit!Thirteen schools competed in the sectionals at Northrop. One of the schools didn’t field a full team, so there were only twelve teams competing. Nonetheless, the top runner from the school that didn’t have a full team came in 17th and won a position at regionals. Any individual placing in the top forty got a berth at regionals. The top five teams advanced. 10 individuals who weren’t on qualifying. The easy part, actually. The hard part came with them being aware of the fact that they’re genetically different from the rest of humanity. I’m not human. Neither is my wife. Yet we live in a human-dominated society. Humans are everywhere we look. There are many nonhumans around but we’re only visible to each other. We’re masquerading as something we’re not to avoid being hounded and persecuted by a human populace which would definitely not welcome us with open arms if they knew we existed. In.