Then a strange thing occurred to me. Though she stood above me, I felt like I was looking down on her. "Um," she hesitated, "I better go." She'd chang...d her mind. "Okay Annie, nice to see you." "You too Roger." I nodded at her and she tip-toed on her high heels up the steps and into the arriving crowd. "She has a good ass, that girl," I thought to myself. Then I started to wonder if she was a submissive. What was happening to me? I turned around and looked up and down the street, re-assessing. Going over to Mike, I started the scan on him and gasped at the metal ball that was lodged into his chest cavity. I activated the foam and let the machines go to work on him. After I extracted what the computer had identified as a cannon ball and started the rejuvenation process on Mike and then I turned to the memory cortex and started viewing what happened to them. I started crying as I looked at the little boy that was killed. I was shocked by Mike's anger and his disregard for his own life. But that's another story (and one I might tell in future). This,however, is the true story of how I came to be the bridesmaid of myeldest sister, Alice. Oh! And in case you thunk it ended with me being a bridesmaid, thinkagain. My life was never the same again.-------------------My name (in case you hadn't realized by now!) is Danny. You alreadyknow I have three sisters and a mom. What I haven't told you yet is thatI was also the only male in the house.Dad had left just after I was born (in an. After a moment, it emitted a seriesof beeping noises, causing Luke to jump. Then the message changed: "Phase 2Fully Loaded!" it declared proudly. Then the timer again.Luke sighed deeply, and turned around to go to bed. He had a feeling therewould be something different about Dean tomorrow.-----------Luke walked into math class as usual, feeling even more depressed than ever.It seemed a lot worse to know that Dean would be changed than it did todiscover that Marcus had been. He plopped down into.