” Here Hartwell turned toward Randall, “YOU, I am the most disappointed in. Son, I know you can read, I know you can follow orders, yet, you did n...ither when it came to first contact with the Delcrons.”“Sir, I thought that in this instance that he was going to kill-” Randall started then was cut off by Hartwell.“Idiot! Had you read the full briefing you would have realized that SHE was trying to get you to react the way you did.” Hartwell said with a serious look on his face. A look that. It hurt. He touched it gingerly and winced. He tried to pick some of the sticky red remnants out of the hair trailing down from his belly button and quickly discovered that was a bad idea. The red goo had glued it all into a painful clump. Now that it was cooling and hardening again just moving was starting to pull at the hairs uncomfortably. The entire region was extra sensitive due to the burnt skin laced through beneath the hair. On top of it all, the mystic drugs from the goo were still. Untilone Friday at school Roni got in a fight over Lisa. He was sent to theprincipal's office, were they called his aunt, to pick him up fromschool, for he had been suspended for 3 days. Roni was very scared,because he has never seen his Aunt Val mad, but knows how it was likewhen his Dad was mad. His Aunt finally picked him up, and Roni didn'tnotice any anger on her face, so he just stayed quite not to arouse anyanger.When they reached the house, the only words that came out of his Aunt'smouth. ” I was starting to get a little annoyed, but he didn’t seem to notice.“How about you? You ever cheat?” This was getting a little too personal so instead of answering I took another drink of beer. He looked over at me and grinned. I must have blushed or something. “You have someone on the side don’t you.”“No, nothing like that.”“Like what then?”“One time, at a conference,” I admitted. Oh shit, why was I admitting this to my neighbor? Those beers must have gone to my head.“Only once? You pussy..