" I stammered, painfully aware of how pathetic I sounded, wondering why I was even still there, knowing exactly why I was.Lexi smiled. "Neither am I, ...oney," she purred, then turned to Karen who was kissing the side of her face. "What about you?"Karen looked up and licked her lips, touching her cheek against Lexi's. "Oh, I'm perfectly straight," she breathed, "I'm a virgin as well!" she added, and the two cavorting girls fell into fits of giggles. I gasped, scarcely able to believe that Sally's. ‘Nate said that? He talks about me?’ Adam froze and I sensed he was choosing his next words carefully. ‘We don’t make a habit of it,’ he said after a few moments of silence. ‘And we certainly don’t discuss you in the way you might think. We were talking about my getting a pardon and I asked him if he thought you’d be a good person to enlist for help.’ ‘And what did Nate say?’ The need to know exactly what the Reverend thought of me overshadowed everything else. Adam smiled. ‘Well I was worried. But. What?”“You wouldn’t exist.”“But then who would make the wish?”“Oh then the wishes would never have existed. The world would exist in its new state.”“So before I change the past I should either protect myself to ensure I always exist or possibly that I continue to exist in some phased reality or something so I can continue to exist and still change the past.”“Sure, you can do that. They’re your wishes.”“...I’m confused.”“Ok”“What happens if I don’t make any wishes?“The universe will. But they didn’t all start out that way.”“You mean Becka? She told me a lot more than what’s been discussed at the Rap Sessions. I guess she was a major bitch.”“Misguided,” I said.“She called herself a bitch.”“She’s free to do that, but it was really more a matter of getting her thinking straight than anything.”“And she really had sex the first time with you AND a girl?”“Becka does not discriminate,” I chuckled.“She said that was the only way she could be truly free.”“And I think I agree with.