Thought you needed a pattern for your dress?” said Nikki, hoping for something better.“My mum said she’d make us a picnic if we wanted to go up ...ith it” offered Lauren.“I said I’d help, not make it all, miss” her mother shouted.“Yeah yeah, shall we? Mike wants to go, and he might bring his friend from school” added Lauren.“What’s his friend like, is he a big boy?” quizzed Nikki with a seductive voice.“How do I know” giggled Lauren. She thought that sometimes Nikki was incorrigible.“OK, let’s do. . give me strength,” he groaned, turning over to stare at the wall. Again his mind turned to images of bulging muscles beneath wet, red skin, of womanly beauty the likes of which he had never beheld before that day. The Oni had seemed so wild and free, she was everything that Satou desired, everything that he wanted to be... The kimono was hot and stifling in the May heat, weighing him down, Satou adjusting it uncomfortably as he watched the Matsuyo procession emerge from the trees. They had. They all looked at me and grinned and I said “Jeff who are the other two guys?” I asked. He said they were two guys who met them to help unload the truck and asked if it would be okay if they joined in. I wasn’t prepared for this. “I don’t think so Jeff...” Terri interrupted. “It’s okay, you guys come on in and have a drink” I turned and looked at her. “Don’t forget who is in charge tonight.” We had a drink together. “Let’s split up and go out partying and meet back here at the room later. "OK, this is not very accurate or detailed. But I remember there was a break in 1893, a bad one, and several before that caused mostly by railroad speculation and, wait a minute. Ann, what's speculation?" He wrote that word on the board."Uh, to speculate means to guess, to think about something. That word was on the SAT test." You think right, that's good. Speculation is guessing. What's economic speculation?" Guessing that the price of something or the value of something will go up," she.