You told me this morning." "It's worth mentioning twice."Emma's eyes begged him not to compliment her right now. "Caitlyn and I are going to Joe's aft...r we finish redoing our IEP's. It's been a long two days and I could use a drink." She didn't know exactly what was going to happen, but if she had her way, Jim would hate to know about it. Compliments would be the last thing on his mind."Sure, Hun. You deserve it." As Caitlyn appeared in the doorway with her laptop, Jim looked at her, then at. His fingers flew across the keyboard, not even seeming to strike the keys so much as brush them. A part of her addled brain thought about how fast his fingers moved, and how useful that could be in certain situations.She shook her head to banish such unacceptable thoughts. No sexing up the geeks, she thought. He flipped up a movie on the big, huge monitor dominating the overall pile of machines. There was some chick being hammered by two guys, one in each end. Both were hung like fucking mules. She stood and as she held onto the helpful man, the hatch noiselessly closed just as it was lit by another car's headlights.Outside, the driver was astonished at seeing a huge machine sitting quietly at the side of the road. He decided to stop and see what it did. It was a waste of his time, for while he was stopping, the machine drifted away from the road, apparently weightless despite being so large. It vanished into the blackness of the desert night.He thought to turn the car, to shine his. A Dry Waller working on the parents master bathroom,…I though next time he comes outside to chain-smoke I'm gonna go across the street and say something … but what ?!! Eventually i went over asking about my friends whereabouts,he told me the family was at the beach for the weekend! I lingered around and he would ask me to hand him a hammer or a drill this and that cigarette clenched in his lips under that thick dark mustache. I stared at his mouth watching him pull and blow out the thick.