.. you certainly look much more ... um ... well ... How can I say this..." Confident?" Janice supplied."That's right! You look so much more 'confident... than you used to, if you know what I mean." Well, I feel fantastic. Remember how uptight I used to be? I swear, I was 35 going on 60. But now just look at me! I feel and look ten years younger, I'm flirting all the time at the office, and I'm so much more aggressive about getting what I want." You know, the way you've been stroking that wine. She had been home from college and her parents were away on a cruise. Kate had cajoled their account to making sure Ana got her due. I guess ugly bride’s maid dress comments have consequences.As she picked it up in her hands and felt its heft. Her hiney involuntarily tightened and twitched at the memory emblazed in her mind. She swung it hard through the air hitting a down pillow which expelled a cloud of dust. It was really a Hickory Stick with a springy swing that had devastated her hiney.. " I'm one step ahead of you," came a woman's voice. "But the damn thing is dead as a doornail."Resigned to their temporary fate, the five passengers made small talk, which soon evolved into humor derived from their predicament. Ten minutes passed, with no sign of power returning; the conversations started to drag, and the group grew quiet.What happened next took only a few seconds. But for Dani, the sensation surrounding the whole episode made it seem like minutes, if not longer.Dani had. " Ned rubbed the back of his neck and fiddled with the buttons of his shirt when Cassie said nothing in reply. "She'll just hafta find her own partner, fer sure."Cassie sighed. "You started to feel something, didn't you?" Uh, I was prolly thinkin' of ya the while time..." This is what I was afraid of, Ned, that she can't control it." I wasn't gonna do anything with her, even if she up and asked me," Ned protested. "She didn't even really, like, come on to me. I mean, not directly." Not.