I could understand that. It’s not often that people come along to kidnap you. It’s also not often when you witness someone getting their windpipe ...rushed. I just hoped the kids could sleep.“We’re doing four shifts, tonight,” Clara informed me in a matter-of-fact-manner once she’d laid her own sleeping bag and air mattress down next to mine. “Gort and Unna are going to pull the first shift, I’ll pull the second, and Gabby will pull the third. That leaves the fourth shift for you to take. It’ll. ” I stared at my burger but my appetite was long gone. “So why don’t you stop it now, before it blows up?” I gave her a wry smile. “Because it feels so good right now.” Gina sighed and shook her head. “Guess I’ll just have to let you learn your lesson the hard way.” “Guess so.” I figured it would take a while to learn this particular lesson. It wasn’t like I’d gotten it the first time around. I wouldn’t be in my current situation if I had. I was a reasonably intelligent woman, but like a. The first was a young blond dressed in a very short, black dress. She had soft leather, high-heeled boots that came almost up to her knees and a strange, pointed hat. She looked over at the deejay and shortly after that a deep voice came over the speakers saying, “I was working in the lab, late one night...”The girl swayed slowly around the stage until the music changed and the voice began yelling– you couldn’t really call it singing– “He did the mash, he did the monster mash...”The girl began. I'm pretty sure she knew what was making me so friendly. She was friendly right back, although she held back a little more than I did. She held back a little more than I would have preferred.And I worried about the race thing. I mean, she was from a small town in Louisiana. I was likely the first white boy who had shown any interest in her. And who knows what she'd been taught, about dealing with white people? Or about dealing with boys, in general?We all realized that things had changed a lot,.