" I waved my arm."Were you really happy, Ben?" Adrienne asked cautiously. "I seem to remember you getting upset with me pretty regularly that I didn't...want to be your girlfriend." Seems like no one wants to be my girlfriend," I sighed. Dawn was lonely and wanted to let herself accept Ryan's attention. Adrienne had commitment issues. And Allie said she didn't want to pretend like we were going to last very long."Stop getting all depressive about it and answer the question," Adrienne said a. “Yes, we may have to ask the creature you captured,” Norant agreed, looking at me.“Wait! We can talk to it?” I asked.“In a sense. The whole lot of them appear to be a telepathic hive mind, ruled over by something they call the Masters. Though how many of them there are or what they look like, we don’t know as our creature goes into a kind of mental euphoria when discussing them.”“If it’s telepathic, how do you talk to it?” Flinn asked.“The AIs managed to adapt an input/output device to one of. " We'll see," said Jennings.They excused her, so Tina left at went to finish out her English class.Cindy:Once again, her Mistress was in the office. This was getting ridiculous! Why couldn't they just leave her alone? On the other hand, maybe it had something to do with the incident from yesterday. That there had been an incident, everyone was agreed. What it was and who had been involved, other than Tina, no one knew. It was still too early in the morning to figure out who wasn't at school. She looked at him in an innocent, helpless look. He smiled sympathetically.“It’s okay, Hasna. Maybe it’s your first time. But, after what happened yesterday, you know you want it too. WE, know you want it, don’t you?” He slowly whispered into her left ear through her thin headcover. She had her eyes closed and she nodded a yes, still reluctantly.He kept squeezing her boobs over her salwar, simultaneously. She thought about what she was doing. She was letting a man whom she didn’t know two days.