"She saw him frown as his mind accepted the difficult concept. Suddenly blackness fell, and then a soft gray light crept back in."I don't want it to b... too dark," he explained. She bent and placed a chaste kiss on his cheek."I understand, young one. We all have our small comforts." She rose and left the room. Before the door closed softly behind her, a last whisper sounded from the hall."Dream sweetly, Bill."%%%The next morning, Polina rose early. She washed her face, then stalked over to the. By now the house was almost empty, as the partiers were rushing out the backdoor or climbing out the windows as fast as they could, but there were still over two dozen people in the first floor alone. Carter spotted a group of partiers at a window, frantically trying to open it. In desperation, one of them punched through the glass, tearing up his hand. He then tried to climb out, while getting torn and shredded on the remaining shards. The others quickly tried to push him through so they could. He took a shower, got dressed, and had lunch. While he was eating, he decided he would drive his other car. It was an away game, so only his schoolmates from football and cheerleading would see it, maybe. He worried about image almost as much as his parents, only in the opposite direction. He wanted to hide his relationship with wealth, while his parents wanted to reasonably show it off. It made for good recruiting. ‘Screw it, I’m going,’ he thought. ‘If Ashley was brave enough to stand up for. I thought another “smoking is injurious lecture was coming my way”,because i have been lectured previously by elderly strangers i met at the pan wala. But she did not do any such thing.A casual conversation about what I dis and where i lived went on.And I walked beside her to her car which was parked in the street 15 minutes away.I was a nomad of sorts so it did not matter where I was going,I only had to pass time.As we approached her car,I again called up my friend and he did not pick up my.