With my old man's mind and my young girl's body, I knew when and how to get the biggest tips. I was not ashamed to flirt with a group of single guys, ...nbutton one more button on my uniform and bend over to take their order. Or provide extra fast service to a family with three kids all under the age of ten. I was always happy and smiling, I even helped carry out large orders for the other waitresses.More important to me was that in two days, we were going to have our first track meet. I was. Us humans are strange. Even if we know something is coming, we can ignore it and pretend it isn't going to happen, right up until it hits us in the face. That's probably what's keeping the Earth going now, when everyone knows the Swarm are on their way. People ignore them and carry on as if they don't exist. Me and Maria had done the same thing. She was going to go with another man and have his baby. We'd both been ignoring it, but it hadn't gone away. Up to now I'd been having my fun with Kim. Neither Jimmy nor Jennifer knew what that one night of love would mean to their lives. They only knew that their life would never be the same.On Sunday, Jennifer and Jimmy were in a fog, almost a hangover. They could remember most of what had happened at the party but neither one of them was prepared to discuss it. They slept most of the day, getting up to eat dinner and watch some TV then go back to bed. There were few words spoken.Jennifer was concerned about the moral and legal implications. "It's nothing, really," Jamie says. "Just something I reckon you coulduse in your new place. Though by the looks of your pile, you've gotenough to build a whole new 'new place', heh!" Just about, yeah!" I laugh nervously, leading to an awkward silence."...Everything getting a bit overwhelming?" Jamie asks, sensing mydiscomfort."Just about, yeah," I sigh."I'll, um, I'll get us some drinks," Sarah says softly, clearly sensingthat I need a private girl-to-girl talk with my mentor."Congratulations.