" You might be right," came from Mercy's voice. She had come up on us without our noticing. "Sometimes I think Chuck is reading me without me even kno...ing it. Sometimes he'll talk to me a little to let me know he's thinking of me, but I think most of the time he looks into me to make sure I'm not seeing something I shouldn't. He has the ability to sneak in, whereas mom and I always seem to alert people when we're listening and reading."Sue said, "You need to get into his head and plant the. "Sure! I said stepping down from the stool. "Genie, this is Sam. Sam this is Genie." I said introducing them. They said hi and we went to the dance floor. We danced to fast songs as I waited for a slow one. They began playing a slow one. We got close, she put both arms over my shoulder, and I put mine around her waist. I could feel it coming. I was in that mood again not caring about what Sue or anyone was thinking. She put her cheek to mine, as I could smell her hair and perfume."You smell. While he came up sputtering and laughing, she retrieved a big black inner-tube and, also laughing, threw it to him. “Man overboard,” she said, “I’ll save you Johnny,” then she jumped in herself, laughing.Johnny had just positioned head and shoulders through the rubber ring, and was savoring of freedom that naked swimming gives, the water caressing his entire naked body, the sensation of his bare balls and prick floating freely in the cooling liquid, when he suddenly felt something soft rub. “I DID it,” Deena exclaimed. “The ROOT of all EVIL!”The girl at the register looked perplexed. I hid my own questions.Haley started laughing. “It IS. It REALLY IS!”“Okay,” I said. “Let me in on the joke.”“Daa-aadddd!” Deena feigned a whine with that evil grin on her face. “Six-six-six, you know, 666, in the Bible, is the ultimate evil. Twenty-five point eight one is the square root. So, the root of all evil...”She and Haley watched my face.“Gahhhh,” I said. “That’s HORRIBLE.”“But numerically.