You know..." Screwing some boy?" May interjected."Yeah! Right!" Kate agreed, happily surprised at finding someone sympathetic to her viewpoint. "Yeah,...you know exactly what I'm talking about!" Poor Vikki," May said. "As good-looking as she is, l bet she's got all kinds of sexy guys trying to get into her pants." No kidding," Kate agreed. "But that damn Ronee sure keeps 'em all away." Who keeps 'em away from you?" May asked jokingly, reaching over to touch Kate's arm. "You look like a pretty hot. I just yelled back, "Sorry, your boyfriend's still in junior high!"and zipped through the door. Strategic conservation of forces time. Istarted to run like hell to find one of the coaches to play the UN.***14:52 21 Jan "Debbie!" She turned around, and started walking towards me. "Tuck, look, I'm sorry, I had your gym back in my trunk all thistime, I didn't even..." She slowly trailed off in confusion as shelooked at the gym bag in my hand. I motioned her close, and whispered in. ." She frowned. "Um ... Mister Woodford ... I need to tell you something."There was something in her voice that made my ears prick up. "Sure – go on." I ... this is really hard. I don't know ... you're going to think I'm weird." I doubt that!" At ... at ... at the club ... I followed you out." She took a deep breath and I stayed quiet, wondering what was coming. "Oh ... God. How do I..." She stopped and covered her face with both hands. "I was fourteen, you know. You were right out of college,. "We had better go see what our adults have done to them."She smiled, and Tika giggled, and they rose and went outside.The Prodigies, for indeed it was they, sat on the grass in one huge, tight bunch. Some of them, perhaps eighty, were crying, sobbing quietly by themselves or while hugging one another. As many worked on their screens, trying vainly to figure out how Raz had beaten all their defenses and taken control of their computers to use them to amplify his voice. A few had thought about.