Instead, I triedfocusing on practicalities... like straddling the toilet sothat I wouldn't actually have to touch it as I did mybusiness. It felt stra...ge... familiar yet different at thesame time. Once I was done, I flushed the toilet... or at leasttried to. The bowl had already been completely dry beforemy use, and flushing it hadn't changed that. Of course, itwas obvious that there wouldn't be any water or electricityin a place like that, so I wasn't surprised. Just annoyed. "Fucking shit. “Ok, have fun and I’ll see you back at my place” and with that I clicked off. I was glad to hear my sister was having fun. She called me a few weeks back and asked if she could stay at my place with her friend Sarah for a few days. They both just finished their senior year of high school and wanted to come have some fun in the big city.I haven’t seen my sister in a few weeks and although there was a pretty big age difference we got along fine. I also knew her friend Sarah well. She has been one. Now we had to force a young man, not yet ready to face The World After alone, out of our gates.“Gather his things.” I said to Anna and Bram. “When he wakes...” Two sounds cut through my orders at once. One was a strangled growl, from close behind me. The other was a feral yowl. I turned in time to see the heavy ceramic bowl from the trial of sand crash into the side of Erik’s head. Followed very closely by a streak of auburn hair, as Nadia fell upon Erik in a fury.Her time in the yard had not. We had codes, so we could talk about it in front of our respective parents, and in front of Mike, who had not been introduced to the group. He still “dated” Elizabeth, but it was little more than hanging out as friends. I had gotten a further than him with her. I didn’t mind, as I had a raging crush on her.There was one incident when Dawn and Mike sat on her front porch and Elizabeth and I went inside to get some refreshments.As soon as we were inside, Elizabeth pulled me towards the hallway to.