Have you eaten?" No, Miss Adrian. We were just getting ready to start cooking when the lights went out. We heard a big bang just before that." That mu...t have been the transformer I heard. It might take a bit for the Power Company to get to it. I'm sure that it wasn't the only one." Yes Sir."Adrian said, "Give me your egg orders. I'll have a fresh pot of coffee up in a minute."Laura looked at me. I just said, "You heard the lady."I went over and sat on the couch, and awaited my own breakfast.. ’ Mirela moved to stand next to her and pointed to a spot on the other side of the stream where several young men were playing a game, their strong arms and backs glistening in the sunlight as they moved. ‘Do you see them? Those men over there? The tallest one, his name is Cyprian and I rather think he likes me.’ She tilted her head to the side and bit her bottom lip as she watched him move, stealthily avoiding his opponents as he maneuvered down the field. She sighed wantonly as she stared. ”In the house, Ed noticed that one of the walls looked odd. Going over to it, he found that it opened to a basement. Searching near the door, he found a light switch and flipped it. Warm light came shining up from the basement. Signaling for the others to follow him, he went down the stairs. At the bottom step, he stopped and looked around at the basement. It reminded him of the chemistry lab back at the College. Stepping into the basement, he said, “This explains everything.”Howard looked. Men secretly stared at her; and she knew it. She was smart, book smart, street smart, and intuitive. She almost always got her way. When she didn’t, she was almost certainly in deep trouble. Her friends called her the devil. She had learned early how to twirl and when it was best to take it off.She had sex with her first boyfriend when she was 14. By 16, men too joined the chase. Beginning as a freshman in high school, Margaret had worked on the election campaign of a candidate for the U. S..