"Timmy frowned while quickly flipping through the pages of the contract. He said, "That's got to be a violation of something." It isn't," Mercedes sai... with a smile.Karen grinned and said, "So you want a dozen children?" Only with you," Jared said.Timmy leaned over and whispered something to Karen. She grinned and then undid a button on her blouse. Mercedes leaned over and whispered, "Timmy is trying to get you distracted so that you say something inappropriate. He wants to set the mating phase. Actually, he was. But he didn't know where he was. He didn't even remember when or how he got here. In the silence of this white void, he summoned up the courage, or rather, the fear, to say something. The words graced his lips, as they formed the sounds, but the voice that came out was not his own."Hello."He stumbled backwards, falling over, as he scrambled to move himself away from the figure that materialized before him. It stood out amongst the white, as it was made of darkness. And it was. We could get a better look now we know what to expect. Let’s find a spot to keep watching.”Again, Jessie reluctantly went along with Luke’s suggestion and they tip-toed around in the dark until settling on a position among rugged headstones sheltered by a tree line within sight of the gate. Becky unfurled the blanket and sat down with Pete while Jessie, still trembling, stared at Luke.“Oh, Jessie, relax,” he said, reaching to rub her shoulders. He smiled, his perfectly white teeth glowing in. Kent lived not more than ten blocks from my own house as it turned out, in a nice new condominium. I parked the car in the visitor's lot and met in him in the lobby. We rode the elevator in an awkward, sexual-tension filled silence all the way up to the 12th floor, my erection from the video store had still not gone away. We made small chit chat as he made us drinks and we got ourselves settled in and accustomed to each other's presence. I was starting to find him more and more attractive.