“Wow,” she said when we sat down on her couch after the two-hour drive. “Were you this excited when you bought the house?”“Pretty much,” I...said. “The only thing missing from that farmhouse is a sauna!”“I don’t think we can afford one at this point. I’ll add it to the list!”“I’d go with a freestanding one,” I said. “There’s enough space between the back of the house and the orchard to fit a nicely sized one. But that’s going to be a few years down the road, if you do it at all. When do you think. 436 Hover-Jet-Pack and opened the window. she checked thetempature then jumped. She let herself fall for a few secounds, letting the wind rush through her hair, when she was a fewhundred feet from the ground she turned her hover-pack on and heard the usual slight "hrrrrr" the machine made when she turned it on. Then she simply told the hover-pack to stop her decent with just a thought, and she slowed down suddenly, blue jets of gravity-manipulating rays shooting from slits in the jetpack,. And because of this, her social life had rapidly deteriorated. It seems all I do is work, eat, and sleep, she thought. There is more to life than this. “Do you have plans for the weekend?” Beth asked. Karen was so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn’t hear Beth enter the lounge. Beth could be a poster child for type A personality. She was twenty-one, petite, with short cropped fiery red hair. She bounced from one activity to another seemingly never satisfied. To Beth, there was always a. I'm fucking finished.Alex reached over and pat me on the shoulder. "I bet you are excited." He said grinning. "I have to say that envy is a relatively unfamiliar emotion for me ... but today, I'm genuinely envious of you."His eyebrows raised. "How about a glimpse of what you've got to look forward to?" He gripped a large laptop out of his briefcase, twisted it open, and handed it to me. As the page loaded, he pulled down the privacy shutters on the windows so the sunlight wouldn't interfere.