The wind was blowing a little, which I love, and it was a nice sunny day.I walked for a bit, looking over my shoulder to see if any one wasfollowing m.... Two men were walking down the path toward me, I gotexcited. However, as they caught up to me, they smiled and walked rightpassed me. Shit, I thought, what the hell is wrong. One guy went to the right, theother to the left toward the river, which meant they weren't together. Istood there for a second, a little pissed off and then headed to. He felt the extremely familiar feeling of Jade's hand brushing "accidentally" against his crotch. He bit his lip softly to muffle a groan as he shifted so that nobody could see what she was doing."If you're going to hide my affection away, so nobody can see how much I want you, then I don't think I'm interested anymore," she said, only half joking as she pulled her hand away."Actually," he said, trying to cover his tracks, "I think I might hit the head." After Jade pointed the way to the guys'. I screwed up tonight," I said, hanging my head."It's not just tonight, Cas. You have been a little reserved for weeks, ever since we found out about your unique biology. It got a lot worse after Alex showed up, and we learned about the behavior changes. Tonight was just the 'straw that broke the camel's back, ' but you have been headed towards this, all week." I know you have a lot on your shoulders. I can't even imagine what it must be like to feel responsible for the development of humanity.. As soon as I got home, I needed to pop my laptop and check inon a little project. I was part of a group of investors that wereshorting a small company trying to promote some sort of "revolutionarytechnology" to help the blind or whatever. They were a bunch ofidealistic, gullible idiots and we had them exactly where we wanted them.We were going to shut them down and pick their bones. I got in on it as alearning opportunity and the others considered me a useful afterthought.However, there was an.